Alzenau dialect

Halcnovian
Halcnovian
Haltsnovian
Altsnerisch / Päurisch
Native to	Poland
Region	Hałcnów, Silesian Voivodeship
Native speakers	8, including passive users (2015)
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Elbe Germanic (High German) Central German East Central German Schlesisch–Wilmesau Bielsko-Biała [pl; de] Halcnovian; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
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ISO 639-3	–

Halcnovian (Altsnerisch/Päurisch), alternatively spelled Haltsnovian, is an East Central German dialect spoken in the former village of Hałcnów, which is now a district of Bielsko-Biała, 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] Recently 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 [pl; de], which includes the Wymysorys language.^[5]

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

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Alzenau dialect

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