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Summary. The continental West Germanic dialect continuum roughly encompasses the territory of modern-day Germany, Austria, the German-speaking part of Switzerland, the Netherlands, the northern half of Belgium (Flanders), Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and South Tyrol, in northern Italy.
Some prominent examples include the Indo-Aryan languages across large parts of India, varieties of Arabic across north Africa and southwest Asia, the Turkic languages, the Chinese languages or dialects, and parts of the Romance, Germanic and Slavic families in Europe.
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the grouping of the Germanic languages is the fact that a dialect continuum cannot be constructed to the extent that modern dialect continua are constructed. This is due to the insufficiency of material. There were several major centers for writing in the various Germanic languages historically, but only a small fraction of the geographical areas
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Some of the most important dialect continua in Europe are the Western Romance, the West Germanic, and the North Slavic dialect continuum. Also the 27 Dutch dialects that lie on a straight line are a good example of how a dialect continuum looks like. With Levenshtein distances the linguistic distance between all these dialects is calculated.
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Examples of West Germanic phonological particularities are: [5] The delabialization of all labiovelar consonants except word-initially. [6] Change of *-zw- and *- đw- to *-ww- e.g. *izwiz > *iwwiz 'you' dat.pl.; *feđwōr > *fewwōr 'four'. [7] [ð], the fricative allophone of /d/, becomes [d] in all positions. [8] (.
This article examines the syntactic patterns of Continental West-Germanic languages. It explains that Continental West-Germanic dialects display largely identical syntax, characterized by an asymmetry between main and embedded clauses with respect to the position of the finite verb, and by the clause-final position of clusters of nonfinite verbs.
