This article describes the language. For the beer see Bönnsch (beer).

Bönnsch is the Ripuarian

Ripuarian

Ripuarian is a German dialect group, part of the West Central German language group....

 dialect spoken in central Bonn

Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

, Germany

Germany

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. Bönnsch (also called Bönnsch Platt) is closely related to Kölsch

Kölsch language

Kölsch is a very closely related small set of dialects, or variants, of the Ripuarian Central German group of languages. Kölsch is spoken in and partially around Cologne in the area covered by the Archdiocese and former Electorate of Cologne reaching from Neuss in the north to just south of Bonn,...

, but it has a different melody and a slightly different vocabulary. Bönnsch is described as having a more singsong sound than Kölsch. An obvious phonologic distinction between the two is that Kölsch contrasting to Standard German uses ʃ in most places where German has ç, while Bönnsch is using ç in most places where German has ʃ.

Literature

• Herbert Weffer: Von aach bes zwöllef - Ein bönnsches Wörterbuch, Hrsg. Bonner Genealogischer Arbeitskreis, Band 1, 2nd ed., Bonn 2000.
• Herbert Weffer: Bönnsches Wörterbuch, Band 2. Hrsg. Westdeutsche Gesellschaft für Familienkunde, Bezirksgruppe Bonn, 1st ed., Bonn 2000.

External links

• Small Bönnsch-dictionary (in German language)