This article relies largely or entirely on a single source Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources Find sources Chemnitz dialect news newspapers books scholar JSTOR December 2018 Chemnitz dialect is a distinct German dialect of the city of Chemnitz and an urban variety of Vorerzgebirgisch a variant of Upper Saxon German Chemnitz dialectNative toGermanyRegionChemnitzLanguage familyIndo European GermanicWest GermanicHigh GermanCentral GermanEast Central GermanUpper Saxon GermanVorerzgebirgischChemnitz dialectLanguage codesISO 639 3 GlottologNonePhonologyConsonants Consonant phonemes Labial Dental Postalveolar Dorsal GlottalNasal m n ŋPlosive fortis kʰlenis p t kFricative f s ʃ x hApproximant ʋ jLiquid l ʁ m p are bilabial whereas f ʋ are labiodental n t l s are dental n t l s t is alveolar t after ʃ ŋ kʰ k are velar x ʁ are uvular and j is palatal x ʁ do not constitute a voiceless voiced pair The kʰ k contrast is restricted to the word initial position In many cases it corresponds to the k ɡ contrast in Standard German ʁ occurs only in onsets and it has a few possible pronunciations which are in free variation with one another Voiced uvular approximant ʁ Voiced ʁ or voiceless ʁ lenis uvular fricative Voiceless uvular trill ʀ Voiceless lenis uvular stop q p t k f s ʃ x may be voiced between sonorants Word final p t k are sometimes voiced to b d ɡ Word initially the t k contrast is neutralized before l which means that e g the word Kleid dress can be pronounced as either tleːt or kleːt When a stop or fricative precedes the sequences em en eŋ el can be realized as syllabic consonants m n ŋ l The nasals appear depending on the place of articulation of the preceding consonant so that it can be bilabial m dental n velar ŋ or uvular ɴ When another nasal precedes a syllabic nasal such sequence is realized as a single consonant of variable length Non phonemic glottal stop ʔ is inserted in two cases Before word initial vowels even the unstressed ones Before stressed syllable initial vowels within words Vowels Monophthongs of the Chemnitz dialect from Khan amp Weise 2013 236 237 Red vowels are pharyngealized Plain back back short long short longClose ɪ iː ɵ ʉːClose mid eː ɵːOpen mid ɛ ɛː ɞOpen ʌ ʌː Pharyngealized Unrounded Roundedshort longClose ʊˤːClose mid oˤ oˤːOpen mid ʌˤː ɔˤːOpen aˤː Non native Short LongClose ʏ yːClose mid oːOpen mid œThe pharyngealized vowels correspond to the sequences of vowel r in the standard language The non native vowels are occasionally used in cognates of some Standard German words such as bruder ˈpʁyːtoˤ brothers In other cases they are pronounced the same as ɪ iː ɛ eː Unstressed short oral monophthongs may fall together as e ʊˤː oˤː ʌˤː ɔˤː aˤː are often diphthongal ʊːɒ ˤ oːɒ ˤ ɪːɒ ˤ ɔːɒ ˤ ɛːɒ ˤ in careful speech Monophthongal realizations are optionally shortened in certain positions oˤ corresponds to Standard German ɐ Monophthongs are somewhat retracted when they precede dorsals except j The retraction is strongest before x ʁ To a certain extent this is also true of monophthongs that follow dorsal consonants Monophthongs are allophonically pharyngealized if a vowel in the following syllable is pharyngealized The phonetic quality of the monophthongs is as follows iː ʉː ɵ ɵː ʊˤː are close to the canonical values of the corresponding IPA symbols iː ʉː ɵ ɵː ʊˤː ɪ is close mid ɪ eː ɛ ɛː oˤ oˤː ɔˤː are more central than the canonical values of the corresponding IPA symbols eː ɛ ɛ ː oˤ oˤː ɔ ˤː ɞ is mid ɞ ʌˤː is mid near back ʌ ˤː ʌ ʌː are central ɜ ɜː aˤː is near open near front a ˤː Diphthongs of the Chemnitz dialect from Khan amp Weise 2013 237 Diphthong phonemes Ending pointunrounded roundedMid ɞʏOpen ae aɵThe starting point of ɞʏ is higher and more front than the canonical value of the corresponding IPA symbol ɞ The starting points of ae and aɵ are higher and more central than the canonical value of the corresponding IPA symbol a The ending points of Chemnitz German diphthongs are close to the canonical values of the corresponding IPA symbols ʏ e ɵ Sample The sample text is a reading of the first sentence of The North Wind and the Sun Broad phonetic transcription ˈeːnes ˈtʌːxes hʌmʃ toˤ ˈnoˤːtʋɪnt ɵnt te ˈsɞne keˈtsʌŋt ʋaˤː fɞn ˈpeːtn tɛn nʉː toˤ ˈʃtaˤːkʁe ɪs ɛls e ˈʋʌntʁoˤ mɪt nem ˈʋɔˤːmen ˈmʌntl ʌn foˤˈpeːkʰʌːm Orthographic version standard German Eines Tages haben sich der Nordwind und die Sonne gezankt wer von den beiden denn nun der Starkere ist als ein Wanderer mit einem warmen Mantel an vorbeikam ReferencesKhan amp Weise 2013 p 231 Khan amp Weise 2013 pp 231 232 Khan amp Weise 2013 p 235 Khan amp Weise 2013 pp 232 233 Khan amp Weise 2013 p 232 Khan amp Weise 2013 p 234 Khan amp Weise 2013 p 236 Khan amp Weise 2013 p 237 Khan amp Weise 2013 p 238 Khan amp Weise 2013 pp 236 237 Khan amp Weise 2013 p 239 BibliographyKhan Sameer ud Dowla Weise Constanze 2013 Upper Saxon Chemnitz dialect PDF 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