User:-sche/Zipser

Introduction
Beginning in the 1200s, people moved from Central Germany to Slovakia, where their speech became Zipser German. By the 1800s, some Zipsers had moved to Romania, where their language was over time strongly influenced by Upper Austrian. See.

Sample sentences

 * ... åber åntwort [=antwortet] hat er nix und niemolst håt er kredt [=geredet] mehr vun tiesi Ssåchn. (WAT)
 * Was ich pin? ich pin a arme Sseel. (MK)


 * Showing the use of double negative:


 * ...denn des weiß ka Mensch noch nit! / (MK:) I hib ka Hungr mehr nit. (OW)
 * håt ka X nit khåbt/ghåbt = hat kein/nicht X gehabt (WAT)


 * Standard-German-influenced sample, showing the occasional use of "hat + [word that is homographic to the third-person singular present, but which functions as a past participle, though it lacks the prefix 'g-'/'k-']"


 * Vor hundert Jahren hat in Wischau lebt a Zipser - Bartl Kreiter -, des war a großer Holzschnitzer. (NR)

Sample words

 * Most Silesian and Austro-Bavarian spellings were taken from Wikipedia. (Exceptions include: SD = Schlesisches Dichterbuch, SG = Mitteilungen der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde.) They are etymological cognates, not necessarily the usual words.