Funky Samoan
26 Aug 2013
Language / New Dialects in Western and Northern Poland [24]
Dear Anreas,
Mogilno never had a sizable genuine German Population before it became Prussian after the Polish divisions. The Prussians didn't even bother to give the city a German Name. Therefore I would say there was no local German dialect spoken there.
Mogilno though was only 30 Kilometers away from the German-Polish language "border" at that time. I put the word border in quotation marks because at that time there was no clear border to draw, because German and Polish speaking villages were scattered all over "West Prussia" (todays Kujawsko-Pomorskie and Pomorskie proper). Therefore maybe the local German language there might have been influenced by the German dialect of Low Prussian:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Prussian_dialect
Dear Anreas,
Mogilno never had a sizable genuine German Population before it became Prussian after the Polish divisions. The Prussians didn't even bother to give the city a German Name. Therefore I would say there was no local German dialect spoken there.
Mogilno though was only 30 Kilometers away from the German-Polish language "border" at that time. I put the word border in quotation marks because at that time there was no clear border to draw, because German and Polish speaking villages were scattered all over "West Prussia" (todays Kujawsko-Pomorskie and Pomorskie proper). Therefore maybe the local German language there might have been influenced by the German dialect of Low Prussian:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Prussian_dialect