page_title: Erzgebirgisch
section_title: Sample text
hierarchical_section_title: Erzgebirgisch / Sample text
caption_attribution_description: English: This image shows the dialect clock in Hormersdorf in the Ore Mountains. The clock shows "zwee Ziffern zwee'e" in the Hormersdorf Erzgebirgisch dialect meaning 01:10 (literally "two Ziffers of the second hour", a Ziffer being five minutes, the second hour being 01:00 to 02:00 or 13:00 to 14:00 in daytime). The left-hand wheel has twelve cogs, each showing a five minute interval (a Ziffer), from bottom to top: üm = at or exactly; ä Ziffer = one Ziffer or five minutes; zwee Ziffern = two Ziffer or ten minutes; värtel = quarter of an hour or fifteen minutes; vier Ziffern = four Ziffer or twenty minutes; fünf Ziffern = five Ziffer or twenty-five minutes; (remaining cogs are out of view) The right-hand wheel also has twelve cogs, each showing a single hour, from bottom to top: zwilfe = twelve (or "of the twelfth hour"); äns = one (or "of the first hour"); zwee'e = two (or "of the second hour"); dreie = three; viere = four; fünfe = five; (remaining cogs are out of view) Deutsch: Dieses Bild zeigt die Mundartuhr in Hormersdorf im Erzgebirge. Camera data Camera Nikon D200 Lens Nikon 17-55 mm / 2,8 G AF-S DX IF-ED Focal length 24 mm Aperture f/5 Exposure time 1/320 s Sensivity ISO 100
context_page_description: Erzgebirgisch is a Central German dialect, spoken mainly in the central Erzgebirge in Saxony. It has received relatively little academic attention. Due to the high mobility of the population and the resulting contact with Upper Saxon, the high emigration rate and its low mutual intelligibility with other dialects, the number of speakers is decreasing.
context_section_description: The following snippet contains the introduction and the first stanza of a wedding poem from Clausthal (1759) and is written in the Oberharz dialect:
  Aſs t'r Niemeyer ſeine Schuſtern in de Kerch zur Trauer kefuͤhrt prengt aͤ  Vugelſteller Vugel un hot Baͤden kratelirt iſs k'ſchaͤn d. 25. Oktober 1759. Clasthol kedruͤckt bey den Buchdrucker Wendeborn.
  Klick auf mit enanner, ihr ſtatlig'n Harrn!
  
  Do ſtellt ſich d'r Toffel ahch ein aus der Farrn,
  
  Har hot ſich ju kraͤts ſchunt de Fraͤhaͤt kenumme,
  
  Su iſs'r ahch diesmol mit reiner kekumme.
  
  Se hahn ne ju ſuͤſt wos zu luͤſen kekahn:
  
  Ich hoh' ſchiene Vugel, wolln Sie ſe beſahn?
  Translation
  When Niemeyer lead his bride to the church to marry her, a bird trapper brought birds and congratulated them; This happened on October 25 in 1759. Clausthal, printed at the Wendeborn Printing House.
  Hello you all, you honorable men!
  
  Here comes the lad from far away,
  
  He has already taken the liberty,
  
  So he came in this time again.
  
  They have sometimes given him something to earn:
  
  I have nice birds, do you want to have a look on them?
  According to Borchers (1929), luͤſen 'to earn, get money' was pronounced [ˈliːsən] – Erzg. does not have the uͤ sound [y]. According to Radlof the standard German is lösen (which means remove, loosen, solve, buy in English depending on context). In Neues Vaterländisches Archiv it is spelled as lißen in the text, and as ließen – lösen. in the notes.
caption: Clock showing the time of day in the Hormersdorfer dialect
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