Introduction to phonetic-phonological features of the Standard German and Bohemian German consonants

Abstract

In 1824, Rio Grande do Sul (RS) received the first German immigrants coming from the Hunsrück region, Germany (Altenhofen 1996). Later, around 1873, German immigrants arrived from Bohemia, a current region of Czech Republic (Habel 2017). After that, there was an intense linguistic contact between these dialectal varieties. Since we have not identified studies on the consonant system of this language spoken by the descendants of Bohemian Germans yet, a bibliographical revision of the standard German and the German immigration variety (Hunsrückisch) is initially made. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to make a preliminary description of some aspects of the phonetic-phonological system of the German-Bohemian consonants in a research point at RS, based, especially, on the standard German.

Keywords:
Standard German; Bohemian German; phonetic and phonology