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German
Proper noun
Niederbergisch n (proper noun, language name, genitive Niederbergisch or Niederbergischs, alternative nominative (used with the definite article) Niederbergische, alternative genitive Niederbergischen, no plural)
- The northern and lower part of the Bergisches Land in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Walther Tuckermann, Landeskunde der Rheinprovinz, in: 1917, Joseph Hansen (ed.), Die Rheinprovinz 1815–1915: Hundert Jahre preußischer Herrschaft am Rhein, vol. I, Bonn, pp. 57–86, here p. 64:
- Das Niederbergische, das den Kreis Mettmann und das Bergland des Kreises Düsseldorf umfaßt, ist der tiefstgelegene Teil des Bergischen.
- (linguistics, uncommon) Roughly the above area or the dialects of it with some linguistic limitations; limited by the Benrather Linie (in the South), the Rhine (in the West), Westphalia/Westphalian (in the East)
- 1928, Rheinisches Wörterbuch, vol. I., s.v. Abüs ()
- Abüs abys, –ȳ- `´ Aach, Nfrk, NBerg; abys Schleid-Hellenth m.:
- Abüs abys, –ȳ- `´ Aachen, Niederfränkisch, Niederbergisch; abys Schleid-Hellenth m. :
Declension
Declension of Niederbergisch
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(part of the Bergisches Land):
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Further reading
(linguistics):
- Matthias Zender, Prinzipien und Praxis dialektaler Lexikographie am Beispiel des Rheinischen Wörterbuchs, in: Werner Besch, Ulrich Knoop, Wolfgang Putschke, Herbert Ernst Wiegand (eds.), Dialektologie: Ein Handbuch zur deutschen und allgemeinen Dialektforschung. Erster Halbband (vol. 1.1 of Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (HSK), edited by Gerold Ungeheuer and Herbert Ernst Wiegand), Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 1982, p. 113ff. On p. 115 there is Übersichtskarte zum Rheinischen Wörterbuch having Nieder-Bergisch (but also e.g. Mosel-Fränkisch)