4. The Franconian, spoken in the North of Bavaria, Hessen, and the Middle
Rhine.
5. The Upper Saxon or Misnian, spoken in the plains of Saxony and
Thüringia.
These dialects differ from each other, and particularly from the High
German language, with regard to their elements.
The Ober Deutsche dialects differ from each other by the introduction of
peculiar vowels.
The Nieder Deutsche is distinguished from the Ober Deutsche by the shifting
of consonants: _ex. gr._:
+---------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
| OBER DEUTSCHE DIALECTS. |NIEDER DEUTSCHE DIALECTS.|
+-------+-------+------+-------+------+-------+--------+--------+-------+
|High |Allem. |Suab. |Bavar. |Franc.|Upper | Lower |Holl. | Engl. |
|German.| | | | |Saxony.| Saxony.| | |
+-------+-------+------+-------+------+-------+--------+--------+-------+
|wein. |wi. |wai. |wai. |wein. |wein. |win. |wein. |wine. |
|stein. |stein. |stoi. |stoa. |staan.|steen. |steen. |steen. |stone. |
|weit. |wit. |wait. |wait. |weit. |weit. |wet. |weid. |wide. |
|breit. |breit. |broit.|broat. |braat.|breet. |breet. |breed. |broad. |
|haus. |hus. |haus. |haus. |haus. |haus. |hus. |huis. |house. |
|kaufen.|kaufen.|koufen|kafen. |kafen.|koofen.|koopen. |koopen. |to buy.|
|feuer. |für. |fuir. |foir. |fair. |foier. |für. |für. |fire. |
|kirche.|chilche|kieche|kirche.|kerche|kerche.|kerke. |kerk. |church.|
|herz. |herz. |heaz. |herz. |harz. |harz. |hart. |hart. |heart. |
|gross. |grosz. |grausz|grusz. |grausz|grusz. |groot. |groot. |great. |
|buch. |buech. |busch.|buech. |bouch.|buch. |book. |boek. |book. |
+-------+-------+------+-------+------+-------+--------+--------+-------+
I have introduced here, as a dialect of the Nieder Deutsche, the Dutch =
Holländisch, the language spoken by the people of the Nederlanden =
Niederlande = Netherlands.
The Nieder Deutsche dialect is also spoken in Westphalia, and along the
river Weser, &c.
All these dialects have also their own words, or at least their peculiar
meanings of words, as well as particular modes of expression, and these are
to be considered as provincialisms.