Duisburg Platt Dialect
| Duisburg Platt | |
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| Native to | Germany |
| Region | Duisburg |
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Duisburg Platt (German: Duisburger Platt, Düsbergsch Platt) was part of the southeasternmost form of the South Guelderish dialect within the Northern Lower Franconian main dialect. South Guelderish (Dutch: Zuid-Gelders, German: Südgeldersch) refers to the easternmost group of Dutch dialects spoken along the lower Rhine in Germany and the Netherlands. Duisburg Platt was spoken in the German City of Duisburg. Through historical circumstances it became broadly influenced by the Central German language.
The Uerdingen Line (named after the city of Uerdingen) is the linguistic isogloss within the continental West Germanic languages in Europe that separates dialects which preserve the -k sound in the first person singular pronoun word "ik" (north of the line) from dialects in which the word final -k has changed to word final -ch in the word "ich" (ç) (south of the line). This sound shift is the one that progressed the farthest north among the consonant shifts that characterize High German and Low German/Low Saxon dialects. The line passes through Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany.
Duisburg Platt, north of the Uerdingen Line, is now regarded as extinct. As a spoken language it died out between the 1950s and 1970s. Nowadays, a so called Ruhr/Lower Rhine area dialect with traces of the old dialect in grammar, syntax and vocabulary is spoken in the Duisburg region.
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