Sathmar Swabian
| Sathmar Swabian | |
|---|---|
| Schwǫbisch | |
| Region | Satu Mare |
| Ethnicity | Satu Mare Swabians |
Native speakers | c. 200[1] |
| German alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| IETF | swg-u-sd-rosm |
Sathmar Swabian (endonym: Schwǫbisch, Romanian: Șvabă sătmăreană or dialectul șvăbesc sătmărean, Hungarian: szatmári sváb)[1] is an Upper Swabian dialect of High German spoken in Romania in Satu Mare (German: Sathmar) and Satu Mare County, north-western Transylvania by the Sathmar Swabians (German: Sathmarer Schwaben),[2] who are among the few Danube Swabians who are in fact truly Swabian in origin. Many speakers now live in Germany but some remain in northwestern Transylvania, Romania, more specifically in Satu Mare County (German: Kreis Sathmar).
Sample words
| Sathmar Swabian[3] | Swabian in Germany | Standard German | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| i | i, e | ich | I |
| du | du | du | you (singular) |
| mir, mr | wir | we | |
| dees | des | dies | this |
| daß | daß | dass | that (conjunction) |
| wear | wer | we | |
| wa, waa | was | what | |
| it (itt, itte) | ed, it | nicht | not |
| alles | älles, (alles) | alles | everything (all) |
| vie | viel | many |
References
- ^ a b Kommission Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage. "Sathmar Swabian". Austrian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
- ^ Helmut Berner, Die Mundart der Sathmarer Schwaben nebst einigen ihrer Besonderheiten Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ words from: Claus Stephani, Volksgut der Sathmarschwaben (1985)