| essekerisch, osijek "urban vernacular" ➤ a Deutsch-S./Upper German idiom, influence < [53=] Hrvatski (Croatian), [41=] Magyar and/or [52=] Yiddish ¶ formed in the context of a former Austrian garrison town, established at a focal point on the River Drava after 1687 (Austrian occupation terminated in 1918, and most speakers dispersed after 1945) ⊕ Osijek, Esseg |