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Within Europe, the three most prevalent West Germanic languages are English, German, and Dutch. Frisian, spoken by about 450,000 people, constitutes a fourth distinct variety of West Germanic. The language family also includes Afrikaans, Yiddish, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Scots. Additionally, several creoles, patois, and pidgins are based ...
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 ...
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Nov 15, 2023 · The root of knife is attested in all North and West Germanic languages. It has specialised meanings in High German (HG; Kneif ‘cobbler’s knife’), Dutch ( knijf ‘clasp-knife’) and West Frisian ( knyft, kniif ‘clasp-knife’), but it is the generic term in North Frisian, English and the North Germanic languages.
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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.
William G. Moulton Anthony F. Buccini. West Germanic languages - Germanic, Indo-European, Dialects: German is spoken throughout a large area in central Europe, where it is the national language of Germany and of Austria and one of the three official languages of Switzerland (the others are French and Italian, and Romansh has a special status).
This chapter sketches the development from Proto-Northwest Germanic to Proto-West Germanic and discusses some subsequent changes that were widely shared among West Germanic dialects. It resembles the preceding chapter in organization but is much more detailed because of the much greater number of West Germanic changes.
The West Germanic languages share many lexemes not existing in North Germanic and/or East Germanic — archaisms as well as common neologisms. Existence of a West Germanic proto-language Most scholars doubt that there was a Proto-West-Germanic proto-language common to the West Germanic languages and no others, though a few maintain that Proto ...
