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Palatine (Language)

The Frankish Rhineland Palatinate or simply Palatine or in Palatine) is a German dialect spoken in the Rhine valley, between the towns of Zweibrcken , Kaiserslautern , Alzey , Worms , Mannheim , Heidelberg , Speyer , Wrth am Rhein and the border region of Alsace in France. The Pennsylvania German language follows from that.

Vorderpflzisch	Westpflzisch	German	English
But	But	Muse	mice
Lais	Lais	Lause	running
Grumbeer	Grumbeer	Kartoffel	potato
Schnoogie (e)	Stechmigg	Mcke	Mosquito
Baam	Baam	Bume	trees
Schd	Schd	Stein	stone
se	sei	within	His (possessive)
unser	unser	unsere	Bear
net / nit	net	nicht	not
dowedder	degeche	dagegen	Against
Fusch	Fisch	Fisch	fish
Ebbe	Ebbe	etwas	Something
rwett	Arwett	Arbeit	work
Dor	Dor	Tor	gate
Abbel	Abbel	Apfel	Apple
Hawwa	Hann	Haben	Have

A sentence in Vorderpflzisch (Palatine North):

Isch habb's'm schunn verzehlt, dr awwer Wed's hot nit geglawt.

In Westpflzisch (Palatine of the West):

Ich hbb's'm schunn verzehlt, er hat awwer Wed geglaabt's net.

German:

Ich hab's schon erzhlt ihm, aber er hat mir nicht geglaubt's.

In French:

I have already told him but he did not believe me.

A hash (HP) Hunger? (Westpflzisch)

Hoschd aa Hunger? (Vorderpflzisch)

German:

Hast du auch Hunger?

French:

Have you as hungry?

References

Western	Faroese Icelandic Norwegian Nynorsk
Oriental	Danish Norwegian bokml Swedish

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Yiddish	Yiddish