Hamburg German

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Hamburg German, also known as Hamburg dialect or Hamburger dialect (natively Template:Lang, Template:Langx), is a group of Northern Low Saxon varieties spoken in Hamburg, Germany. Occasionally, the term Hamburgisch is also used for Hamburg Missingsch, a variety of standard German with Low Saxon substrates. These are urban dialects that have absorbed numerous English and Dutch loanwords, for instance Törn 'trip' (< turn) and suutje 'gently' (< Dutch Template:Lang).

Hamburg's name is pronounced Template:IPA in these dialects, with a "ch" similar to that in the standard German words ich or Milch (ich-Laut). Typical of the Hamburg dialects and other Lower Elbe dialects is the Template:IPA pronunciation (and eu spelling) for the diphthong Template:IPA (written öö, öh or ö), e.g.:

in Hamburg	elsewhere	standard German	English translation
keupen Template:IPA	köpen Template:IPA	kaufen Template:IPA	to buy
scheun Template:IPA	schöön Template:IPA	schön Template:IPA	beautiful

However, as in most other Low Saxon dialects, the long monophthong Template:IPA is pronounced Template:IPAblink (as in French peu), for instance Kööm ~ Kœm Template:IPA 'caraway'.

The Low Saxon language in Hamburg is divided in several subdialects, namely:Template:Citation needed