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Title: The Catholic Bohemian German of Ellis County, Kansas

The Catholic Bohemian German of Ellis County, Kansas

A Unique Bavarian Dialect

by Gabriele Lunte (Author)
©2008 Thesis V, 145 Pages
Linguistics
Series: Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes, Volume 316

Summary

This work focuses on the Catholic Bohemian German dialect of Ellis County, Kansas, in the United States. It is a unique Bavarian dialect spoken by descendants of settlers to this area in west central Kansas from Bukovina, then an Austrian province. The Catholic Bohemian Germans were one of two distinct groups of Bukovina immigrants to the Ellis area as early as the 1880s. They found their way to the United States and Kansas via Bukovina from the Bohemian Forest, today situated in the Czech Republic. Their German dialect faces its linguistic demise. This study documents the grammar and the lexicon of the Catholic Bohemian German dialect, based on dialect interviews. In addition it sheds light on its geographical origin in the Bohemian Forest.

Details

Pages
V, 145
Year
2008
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631563243
Language
English
Keywords
Nordbairisch Böhmerwald Katholik Ellis (Kan., County) Bukowina Deutsche Speech island Language preservation Language change
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2007. V, 145 pp., 1 map

Biographical notes

Gabriele Lunte (Author)

The Author: Gabriele Lunte is professor of German at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas (USA). Her research interests include cultural and linguistic heritage of Germans in Kansas and the Midwest, language contact, language change, and preservation.

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