Gottschee

For the town of Kočevje (German: Gottschee), see Kočevje.
The Gottschee region in Slovenia today: the current Municipality of Kočevje

Gottschee (pronounced [ɡɔˈtʃeː],[1][2] Slovene: Kočevsko) refers to a former German-speaking region in Carniola, a crownland of the Habsburg Empire, part of the historical and traditional region of Lower Carniola, now in Slovenia. The region has been a county, duchy, district, and municipality during various parts of its history. The term often also refers to the entire ethnolinguistic enclave regardless of administrative borders.[3][4] Today Gottschee largely corresponds to the Municipality of Kočevje. The original German settlers of the region are called Gottschee Germans[5][6] or Gottscheers,[7] and their German dialect is called Gottschee German[8] or Gottscheerish.[9]

  1. ^ Hauffen, Adolf (1895). Die deutsche Sprachinsel Gottschee: Geschichte und Mundart, Lebensverhältnisse, Sitten und Gebräuche, Sagen, Märchen und Lieder. Graz: K. k. Universitäts-Buchdruckerei und Verlags-Buchhandlung Styria. p. 16. Auch die Betonung auf der zweiten Silbe Gotschéab stimmt zu Kočévje.
  2. ^ Günther, Hans F. K. (1928). Rassenkunde des deutschen Volkes. Munich: J. F. Lehmann. p. 451. Gottschee (der Wortton liegt auf der zweiten Silbe)
  3. ^ Jones, William Jervis. 2001. "Early Dialectology, Etymology and Language History in German Speaking Countries." In: Sylvain Auroux (ed.), History of the Language Sciences: An International Handbook on the Evolution of the Study of Language from the Beginnings to the Present (pp. 1105–1114). Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 1110.
  4. ^ Prolke, Herman. 2003. Genocide of the ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, 1944–1948. Munich: Verlag der Donauschwäbischen Kulturstiftung, p. 34.
  5. ^ Prince, John Dyneley. 1931. "The Gottschee Germans of Slovenia." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 70(4): 391–398.
  6. ^ Costello, John R. 1997. "German in New York." In: Oelia García & Joshua A. Fishman (eds.), The Multilingual Apple: Languages in New York City (pp. 71–92). Berlin: de Gruyter, p. 73.
  7. ^ Suschnigg, Peter. 1996. "A Sociological Profile of Austrian-Canadians." In Frederick C. Engelmann, Manfred Prokop, & Franz A. J. Szabo (eds.), History of the Austrian Migration to Canada (pp. 123–156) Ottawa: Carleton University Press, p. 156.
  8. ^ Hutton, Christopher. 1999. Linguistics and the Third Reich: Mother-Tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language. London: Routledge, p. 151.
  9. ^ Salminen, Tapani. 2007. "Endangered Languages in Europe and North Asia." In: Moseley, Christopher (ed.), Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages (pp. 211–280). New York: Routledge, p. 246.