The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #1836   Message #6543
Posted By: F. Schulte-Noelle
10-Jun-97 - 02:55 AM
Thread Name: Abschied (Muß i denn)
Subject: RE: Abschied (Muß i denn)
This song is in the Swabian dialect (which is spoken in the area of Stuttgart), the word "i" (for German "ich" = engl. "I") and the diminutive Form "Städtele (with THREE syllables, the tune requires three) for the German Stadt (=town) show that. "§Plattdeutsch" is the dialect Low German which is only spoken in the Northern Regions of Germany.