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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] (.
West Germanic languages, group of Germanic languages that developed in the region of the North Sea, Rhine-Weser, and Elbe. Out of the many local West Germanic dialects the following six modern standard languages have arisen: English, Frisian, Dutch (Netherlandic-Flemish), Afrikaans, German, and.
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.
Key dialects include West Low German, spoken in the Netherlands and northwestern Germany, and East Low German, primarily found in northeastern Germany and parts of Poland. These dialects exhibit considerable variation in vocabulary, pronunciation, and syntax, reflecting the diverse cultural and historical influences on the regions where they ...
Abstract. This chapter is a brief description of the phonology and morphology of Proto-West Germanic, as well as of several dialect divisions that already existed in that prehistoric speech community; it is meant to highlight the differences between Proto-Germanic (described in vol. i) and Proto-West Germanic as a result of the large number of ...
Dec 19, 2018 · The most important (by number of speakers) examples of these two branches are. North Germanic languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian (sometimes subdivided into Bokmål and Nynorsk), Icelandic. West Germanic languages: English, German, Dutch, Afrikaans (sometimes also considered as a dialect of Dutch) Now for my question: As a native speaker of ...
Marvin Irving Herzog. 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).
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