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Larissa Naiditsch: Das Mennonitenplatt (Plautdietsch) nach den Fragebögen aus dem Archiv Schirmunski. Teil I. Probleme des Konsonantismus

This paper makes up part of a project that purposes to review and reappraise the Schirmunski Archiv in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The archive contains numerous questionnaires from dialectological surveys that were completed in the 1920s in the German colonies in Ukraine. This paper will analyze those questionnaires that were sent in from the Mennonite colonies. The consonant inventory of the Mennonite dialect (Mennonitenplatt, Plautdietsch) will be examined synchronically, integrating diachronic considerations. In doing so, we shall evaluate the use of graphemes in the questionnaires.