Giessen dialect

E902661

The Giessen dialect is a regional variety of German spoken around the city of Gießen, belonging to the Central Hessian group of dialects.

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Label Occurrences
Giessen dialect canonical 1

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Central Hessian dialect
German dialect
West Central German variety
regional dialect
closelyRelatedTo Lahn region dialects
Marburg dialect
Wetzlar dialect NERFINISHED
country Germany NERFINISHED
differsFrom Northern Hessian dialects
Southern Hessian dialects NERFINISHED
Standard German NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Gießener Dialekt NERFINISHED
hasDialectGroup Central Hessian NERFINISHED
hasLanguageCode none (no separate ISO 639 code)
hasLexicalFeature regional vocabulary distinct from Standard German
hasMorphologicalFeature reduced case inflection compared to Standard German
hasPhonologicalFeature Central Hessian vowel system
consonant shifts typical of Central Hessian
hasSyntacticFeature use of regional word order patterns
influencedBy Standard German NERFINISHED
neighboring Central Hessian dialects
influences regional colloquial German in Gießen
languageFamily Germanic languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

West Germanic languages NERFINISHED
locatedInTimeZone Central European Time
mutuallyIntelligibleWith other Central Hessian dialects
partOf German language NERFINISHED
region Giessen area NERFINISHED
Lahn valley around Gießen NERFINISHED
register primarily informal
spokenIn Germany NERFINISHED
Gießen NERFINISHED
Gießen district NERFINISHED
Hesse NERFINISHED
Middle Hesse NERFINISHED
status regional spoken variety
subclassOf Central Hessian group
Hessian dialects
West Central German dialects NERFINISHED
usedBy local population of Gießen
rural communities around Gießen
writingSystem German orthography
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Hessian hasDialect Giessen dialect