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Jan 6, 2020 · A key victory in the history of the Germanic language family was the battle of the Teutoburg forest against the Roman Empire in 9 AD, saving the Germanic tribes from Romanization. Midway through the first millennium, the northern branch had developed into East and West North Germanic dialects. In the meantime, the western branch evolved into ...
Mar 14, 2020 · The culture of the early Germanic tribes was of course highly influenced by that of the Proto-Indo-Europeans, just as their language was. Many of their customs, their myths and gods can be traced back to these people as is shown by the first encounters of the Romans with the barbarians to the north. Tacitus recognized Greco-Roman gods like ...
In the past (roughly until the end of World War II), there was a dialect continuum of all Continental West Germanic languages, as nearly any pair of contiguous dialects were perfectly mutually intelligible. The German dialect continuum is typically divided into High German and Low German. The terms derive from the geographic characteristics of ...
Dialect Divisions. The German language is part of a dialect continuum of continental West Germanic which includes the dialects of Dutch.However, despite mutual intelligibility between neighbouring Dutch and German dialects on the border, it is not customary to include the Dutch dialects in a description of German dialects, except where this is pertinent to discussions of cross-border ...
Jul 1, 2021 · An intriguing case to investigate historical multilingualism and language contact in the broader context of standard languages, norms and variation Footnote 8 is the situation in the Dutch-German borderlands in the long nineteenth century. Taking a multilingual approach to language history, this research seeks to ‘look beyond the main ...
A hybrid tree/wave model of Northwest Germanic This (greatly oversimplified) model depicts the types of developments considered in Historical Glottometry in the context of Northwest Germanic and its split into Old Norse and West Germanic, and breakup of West Germanic into, for example, Old English and Old High German.
Dec 12, 2010 · Across continental West Germanic, where traditional dialects still survive rather more strongly, the web-like picture is an even more striking reflection of a progressive dialect continuum across the entire region, incrementally proceeding in fairly close step with geography, from Flanders to the Alps.
