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In chapter 31, “The West Germanic Dialect Continuum,” William D. Keel presents an excellent and in-depth overview of major sociohistorical dialect trends in West Germanic. This chapter offers accessible overviews of major trends in phonology/phonetics, morphology, and syntax, as well as lexical variances across German(ic) languages and ...
Nov 19, 2021 · English: A map describing the principal dialect groupings of the closed West Germanic dialect continuum between German, Frisian, Low Franconian / Netherlandic and Low German around the year 1900. Based on:
Aug 29, 2016 · Everything that is designated with the word German somehow concerns the continental Germanic dialect continuum. This designates a region from southern Denmark in the North to South Tyrol (Alto Adige) in the South and from the Belgian coast in the West to somewhere around the Neiße river in the East where ‘descendents of the continental Germic language(s)’ are spoken natively.
such as dialect geography and ethnography, but the listing of isoglosses of shared features will be the primary method employed in this study. The Germanic languages exist on a (dialect) continuum, and the divisions are much more fluid than the previous attempts at grouping would imply, especially within West Germanic. This continuum is not as
May 15, 2024 · North Sea Germanic, also known as Ingvaeonic, is a postulated grouping of the northern West Germanic languages that consists of Old Frisian, Old English, and Old Saxon, and their descendants. Old Saxon, also known as Old Low German, was a Germanic language and the earliest recorded form of Low German.
The High German languages ( German: hochdeutsche Mundarten, i.e. High German dialects ), or simply High German ( Hochdeutsch) – not to be confused with Standard High German which is commonly also called "High German" – comprise the varieties of German spoken south of the Benrath and Uerdingen isoglosses in central and southern Germany ...
Within the Dutch-German dialect group, a division is made in High, Central, and Low dialects, roughly corresponding to the fall of the rivers flowing to the north or west through the area where these dialects are spoken. 3 The High West-Germanic dialect group includes Bavarian, Alemannic (Swiss German), Swabian, and Rhine Franconian.
