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Halcnovian
Haltsnovian
Aljznerisch
Native toPoland
RegionHałcnów, Silesian Voivodeship
Native speakers
8, including passive users (2015)
Language codes
ISO 639-3–

Alzenau (endonym: Aljznerisch, Altsnerisch, Päurisch; German: Altsnerisch; Polish: etnolekt hałcnowski), also known as Halcnovian and Haltsnovian, is an East Central German dialect spoken in Hałcnów, formerly a village, and now part of the city Bielsko-Biała in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. It was the vernacular language of Hałcnów until 1945, when ethnic Germans were expelled from Poland. Some examples of the language were recorded in the works of Karl Olma, who was active as a journalist in the Halcnovian exile community in West Germany after World War II.[1] The dialect has been researched from a linguistic standpoint by Marek Dolatowski.[2][3] In 2016 researchers traced a handful of native speakers of Halcnovian still resident in Hałcnów, and recorded them in order to help preserve the language.[4] It belongs to the dialect group of the former Bielsko-Biała language island, which includes the Wymysorys language.[5]

St. Hedwig linden tree in Hałcnów churchyard, commemorating inhabitants of the village expelled to Germany after 1945 (inscriptions in Polish and literary German)

Sample text

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Dər Līga-Jirg.

Dər Līga-Jirg.

Ma hīrt guǫr oft di Loit huǫrt kluǫin
dǫ hoit-zotāg werd veil geloin
an wār nė güt betrīga kǫn,
dǭs ei kai ǭgeſāner Mǭn.
Do lōw ėch mir di ālde Węlt,
di wuǫr of andre Fis geštęlt!
[...]

[citation needed]

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Sources

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  1. ^ Mętrak, Maciej (2019). "Wymysorys (Vilamovicean) and Halcnovian: Historical and Present-Day Sociolinguistic Situation of Microlanguages in a Southern-Polish Language Island". In Rezoničnik, Lidija; Zavašnik, Nina (eds.). Slovani od preloma 19. in 20. stoletja do danes: jezikovne, zgodovinsko-politične spremembe in književni doprinos (The Slavs from the Turn of 19th and 20th Centuries Until Now: Linguistic, Historical and Political Changes and Literature). Ljubljana: Zveza društev Slavistično društvo Slovenije (Študentska sekcija). pp. 7–19.
  2. ^ Dolatowski, Marek (2013). "Słownictwo hałcnowskie jako odbicie historii etnolektu i historii wsi" (PDF). Kwartalnik Językoznawczy. 3: 1–10.
  3. ^ Dolatowski, Marek (2015). "Pochodzenie etnolektu hałcnowskiego w świetle fonetyki i fonologii historycznej". Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Studia Indogermanica Lodziensia. 4. doi:10.18778/1506-7254.04.03.
  4. ^ Klimaniec, Łukasz (30 September 2016). "Jak się mówi po hałcnowsku? W Bielsku-Białej kto jeszcze zna ten język?". Dziennik Zachodni (in Polish). Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  5. ^ "hałcnowski i bielsko-bialska wyspa językowa". inne-jezyki.amu.edu.p (in Polish). Dziedzictwo językowe Rzeczypospolitej. 2014. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2016.


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communities in Polish-speaking territory, where closely related dialects (e.g. Halcnovian) were spoken, Wymysorys speakers did not self-identify as Germans and

Karl Olma

native Halcnovian, was a writer, journalist, aphorist and poet. He is regarded as being the main writer responsible for promoting the Halcnovian dialect

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