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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 80. Chapters: Slang, Dialect, Jargon, Joual, Idiolect, Yeshivish, Gobbledygook, Official language, Patois, Erzgebirgisch, Vernacular, Language planning, Prestige, Language and gender, Truce term, National language, Mutual intelligibility, Literary language, Pluricentric language, Language secessionism, Stylistics, Generic antecedent, Baby talk, Legal writing, Verbosity, Standard language, List of prestige dialects, Interlanguage, Ausbausprache, Abstandsprache and Dachsprache, Variety, Stylometry, Variation, Diasystem, Register, List of scat singers, Business speak, Elegant variation, Kathleen S. Dunn, California slang, Fanspeak, Cant, Sarkar's Linguistic Concepts and Criteria, Observer's paradox, Ethnolect, Working language, Switcheroo, Franponais, Yeniche language, Sociolect, Corpsing, Online discussion, Causerie, Nonstandard dialect, Online discourse environment, Brogue, Subdialect. Excerpt: Erzgebirgisch (or Aarzgebeergsch, pronounced ) is an Upper German dialect, probably belonging to the Franconian dialect group, spoken mainly in the central Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains). 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 last, but not least, its low mutual intelligibility with other dialects, the number of speakers is decreasing. Language areaAs the following sections will show, Erzgebirgisch is very close to Bavarian. Presumably, speakers of Altbairisch settled down in the Erzgebirge about 1000 years ago. As of today, the Erzgebirgisch area comprises roughly the districts of Mittweida (southern area), Stollberg, Central Ore Mountain District, Annaberg-Buchholz, Freiberg (South) and Aue-Schwarzenberg. Some more speakers live in the town of Lichtenstein, in the Chemnitzer Land district. Another community live i...
