German in southern Moravia. Historical aspects, current situation and dialectal characteristics

Abstract

Due to the longstanding coexistence of both the Czech and German/Austrian ethnics, lots of German/Austrian loan-words became domesticated in the Czech. A significant language contact area in Central Europe is the contact area which is based on the former centre of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

From this contact area, a remarkable territory emerged in southern Moravia that was particularly affected by the influence of Czech on German.

Keywords

• German
• Czech language contact
• contrastive linguistics
• sociolinguistics