Ortografia i pisownia w ankietach Georga Wenkera do Niemieckiego atlasu językowego z obszaru środkowych Mazur
The orthography and spelling in Georg Wenker’s questionnaires for the German Lan-guage Atlas of Central Masuria.

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the orthography and spelling in questionnaires for the German Language Atlas written in the 1880s in the central and eastern parts of contemporary Masuria, a region in the north-east of Poland. The questionnaires contain translations of 40 German sentences (compiled by Georg Wenker, a librarian from Marburg) into the local dialect. With regard to the spelling and orthography, the material analysed takes into account, among other things, the occur-rence of é, e.g. lepiéj, Śniég, the use of j to denote g, e.g. inaczeg, jagka, nag więczey, also as a result of asynchronous pronunciation of soft labial consonants, e.g. c’ezegenc’, dschischag, dzegenc ‘dziew-ięć’. The text highlights the wide variety of renditions in writing of the y vowel, e.g. y᷆,,ỳ,ÿ,. Exam ples are provided of German-related spelling, e.g. with the use of z instead of c: zalezarno ‘całe czarno’, uzuł ‘najwięcej się uczył’; tz instead of c: motzno, umentzone. The questionnaires under discus-sion clearly show the persistence of old Polish spelling traditions, while on the other hand they indicate the influence of German orthography.

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