Gesprochenes Schriftdeutsch im Schwäbischen.

Quellen zur Rekonstruktion historischer Mündlichkeit

Abstract

The article demonstrates how to reconstruct an oral historical variety by using modern
methods and different written sources. The phonetic-phonological phenomena of Regional High German in the nineteenth century are reconstructed for Swabia. Then, a method is presented for identifying mistakes (schriftsprachorientierte Fehlschreibungen) in Georg Wenker’s Sprachatlas des Deutschen Reichs (1888–1923). These mistakes are based on the partial identity of dialect and Regional High German, and can be used to reconstruct the oral historical variety for the nineteenth century.