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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] (.
Examples include Latin pondō, English pound, but German Pfund; Latin piper, English pepper, but German Pfeffer; Latin tegula, English tile, but German Ziegel; Latin (via) strāta ‘paved (road),’ English street, but German Strasse; Latin catillus, English kettle, but German Kessel; and Latin coquus, English cook, but German Koch.
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English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
Mar 31, 2020 · 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. The dialectal varieties in this region differ and are classified on the ...
The chapter establishes Germanic as an Indo-European branch by identifying phonological and morphological innovations common to all Germanic languages, e.g. Rask/Grimm’s Law, Verner’s Law and the grammation of a complex verbal system with strong, weak and preterite-present verbs. Furthermore, the chapter identifies three Germanic sub ...
A map of the West Germanic dialect continuum circa 1945. Although many German dialects exist, when people speak of the German language today, they are likely thinking of 'standard' German (sometimes known as Hochdeutsch, or Standarddeutsch [1] ), the official language of Germany, Austria, and some neighbouring areas.
Other West Germanic languages include Afrikaans, an offshoot of Dutch originating from the Afrikaners of South Africa, with over 7.1 million native speakers; [5] Low German, considered a separate collection of unstandardized dialects, with roughly 4.35–7.15 million native speakers and probably 6.7–10 million people who can understand it [6] [7] ...
