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Lågtyska lånord. Om stad och land i svensk språkhistoria

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Author

Editor

  • Gunilla Byrman
  • Anna Gustafsson
  • Henrik Rahm

Summary, in English

Standard Swedish has a large amount of import words from Low German. These words were adopted by the urban population, approximately 5 % of the people, in the middle ages. According to the author very little was taken over by the speakers of the genuine rural dialects. Instead it is resonable to believe that the propagation of these import word took place as an aspect of the weakening of the rural dialects and the establishment of a national spoken standard language in the 19th century.

Department/s

Publishing year

2010

Language

Swedish

Pages

331-341

Publication/Series

Svensson och svenskan. Med sinnen känsliga för språk.

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds universitet

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • urban dialcts
  • standard language
  • rural dialects
  • language history
  • import words (loan-words)
  • Swedish language

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-91-633-5684-1