The Low German Dialect of Sauk County, Wisconsin: Phonology and Morphology |
Common terms and phrases
adjectives allophones alveolar assimilated Attended becomes belong born in Sauk borrowed called church closed combination consonant derives from WGmc dialect diphthong disappears ending Example farm farmer father final position five fortis four fricative front Give historical immigration indicate inflected initially and medially language Lived loan words Low German Lüneburger majority masculine mbkt medially and finally mother was born mutated nasal never northern nouns occurs in loan occurs initially open syllables originally Parochial participle person phoneme plural position Pres present preterite pronoun Province of Hanover realizations regular remains result Sauk County SCLG singular sounds speak speakers Standard German stem stop stressed Strong Verbs suffix syllables tense Town types unrounded vowel usually velar verbs voiced voiceless vowel Wisconsin words from English