Gottscheer
Facts
- Language: Gottscheer
- Alternate names:
- Language code: dbarg
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, West Germanic, High German, Upper German, Middle-Modern High German, Modern High German, Bairisch
- Dialect of: Bavarian
- Number of speakers: 400
- Script:
More information:
Introduction
Gottschee German was spoken in modern day Slovenia.
The German speaking population first colonized the area around 1330 and the area remained a German language island within the Slovene Lands until World War II.
The Gottscheer Verb
- No indicative preterite
- Conjunctive is formed in the same way both for strong and weak verbs
Sample verbs
- raisn
- raitn