Hamburgisch
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1. Hamburgisch is a Low Saxon dialect and a variant of Northern Low Saxon language spoken in Hamburg, in Germany.
It is a special city dialect with lots of anglicisms and Dutch expressions. "Hamburg" is pronounced "Hamborch" in this lowland dialect, with a "ch" similar to that in the Standard German word "Milch".
Quite typical most subdialects of the hamburgian dialect is the use of eu (spoken oi) for the vowel ö, e.g.
- keupen (hamb.) = köpen (standard northern low saxon) = kaufen (german) = to buy
- Kauhwarderheuft = Kuhwerderhöft (location)
- scheun = schön = beautiful
The low saxon language in Hamburg is divided in several subdialects, e.g.
- Finkwarder Platt
- Olwarder Platt
- Veerlanner Platt (with many sub-sub-dialects)
- Barmbeker Platt
2. The term Hamburgisch is also used for Missingsch, a special dialect of high German with low German grammar and loanwords.
