Texas Silesian
Texas Silesian (Silesian: Teksasko godka) is a dialect of the Slavic Silesian language used by descendants of immigrant Silesians in American settlements from 1852[3] to the present. It is a variant of Silesian derived from the Opole dialect. The dialect evolved after Silesian exile around the village of Panna Maria.[4] It contains a distinctive vocabulary for things which were unknown for Polish Silesians.[5]
Texas Silesian | |
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Teksasko godka | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Panna Maria, Texas |
Ethnicity | Silesian Americans in Texas |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | szl |
Glottolog | sile1253 [2] |
Linguasphere | 53-AAA-cck, 53-AAA-dam |
Texas Silesian is less influenced by German because its speakers emigrated before the Kulturkampf, which added many germanisms to the continental Silesian[6] The language is tended by its speakers, but they know it only in the spoken form.[6] Texas Silesian has not been replaced by English because the Silesian community is strongly isolated.[7] Nevertheless, Texas Silesian has adopted some words from English.
One of the characteristic features of Texas Silesian phonetics is called mazuration, in which all cz, sz, ż are pronounced [t͡s, s, z], whereas in the stereotypical Silesian of the Katowice urban area they are pronounced [t͡ʂ, ʂ, ʐ]. Texas Silesian has given the name for Cestohowa village in Texas - the name is derived from Polish Częstochowa, but, due to this phonetic process, cz became c.[5]
Typical words unlike Silesian
Texas Silesian | Silesian | English |
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turbacyjo[5] | ńyprzileżytość | problem |
zaszanować[5] | zaszporować | to save money |
kapudrok[5] | zalůńik | frock coat |
furgocz[6] | fliger | aeroplane |
szczyrkowa[5] | no native word | rattlesnake |
po warszawsku[5] | po polsku | in Polish |
prastarzik[5] | starzik, uopa | great-grandfather |
ćeżko[5] | fest | very |
kole tego[8] | uo tym | about that |
pokłoud[6] | gipsdeka | ceiling |
bejbik[9] | bajtel | baby |
kara[9] | autok | car |
wjater[9] | luft | air |
korn | kukurzica | corn |
farmjyrz | gospodorz | farmer |
plumzy, piczesy | fyrcichy | peaches |
garce | buncloki | pots |
References
- "Ethnologue report for language code: szl". Ethnologue. Languages of the World.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Silesian". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hlp04
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- http://www.niedziela.pl/artykul_w_niedzieli.php?doc=ed200813&nr=2
- "ŚLŮNSKO EKA - Ze gyšychty našyj godki". Archived from the original on 6 March 2008. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
- "Inne". katowice. Retrieved 5 March 2015.