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  • Thumbnail for High German consonant shift
    delimiters. In historical linguistics, the High German consonant shift or second Germanic consonant shift is a phonological development (sound change) that...
    61 KB (6,468 words) - 23:02, 25 June 2024
  • known as the First Germanic Sound Shift, is a set of sound laws describing the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) stop consonants as they developed in Proto-Germanic...
    22 KB (1,683 words) - 12:54, 25 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Vowel Shift
    of English. Through this vowel shift, the pronunciation of all Middle English long vowels were changed. Some consonant sounds also changed, particularly...
    29 KB (2,832 words) - 19:52, 19 June 2024
  • makes the trill sound (/r/) the only coronal consonant that does not undergo stem-final consonant shift. For example, the gen.pl. of cepure "hat" is cepuru...
    41 KB (3,623 words) - 20:41, 30 March 2024
  • Central German. It has only partly undergone the High German (HG) consonant shift but has had a different vowel development than most other German dialects...
    14 KB (1,384 words) - 12:55, 23 March 2024
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    the High German consonant shift during the Migration Period, which separated Old High German dialects from Old Saxon. This sound shift involved a drastic...
    139 KB (13,954 words) - 20:29, 9 July 2024
  • have been shifted to /j/ and /c/ (the latter has been written as kj or tj), even if there is another consonant between the vowel and the consonant. An intervocalic...
    75 KB (7,060 words) - 17:26, 15 May 2024
  • Mexico, Chile, and Namibia. High German is marked by the High German consonant shift, separating it from Low German (Low Saxon) and Low Franconian (including...
    10 KB (893 words) - 21:30, 7 July 2024
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    on one hand, and by the High German consonant shift on the continent on the other. The High German consonant shift distinguished the High German languages...
    56 KB (4,765 words) - 12:34, 9 July 2024
  • Sound change (redirect from Sound shift)
    spirant law Canaanite shift Cot-caught merger Dahl's law Grassmann's law Great Vowel Shift (English) Grimm's law High German consonant shift Kluge's law Phonetic...
    17 KB (2,333 words) - 05:10, 15 May 2024
  • frontness). However, chain shifts can also occur in consonants. A famous example of such a shift is the well-known First Germanic Sound Shift or Grimm's Law, in...
    11 KB (1,060 words) - 04:35, 28 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Low German
    North Germanic languages, Low German has not undergone the High German consonant shift, as opposed to Standard High German, which is based on High German...
    133 KB (11,048 words) - 10:35, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Benrath line
    consonant shift increases gradually to the South. The Benrath line does not mark the northernmost effect of the High German consonant shift, since the...
    2 KB (215 words) - 23:29, 9 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Norwegian dialects
    Northern Norway, leaving the palatal lateral [ʎ]. The second consonant in the consonant clusters /nd/, /ld/, and /nɡ/ has assimilated to the first across...
    33 KB (3,183 words) - 18:35, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Berlin German
    regions, Berlin German does not exhibit all features of the High German consonant shift, retaining some older features, such as geminate 'p' [pp], as in Appel...
    15 KB (1,861 words) - 15:23, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for German dialects
    Benrath line are dominated by the geographical spread of the High German consonant shift, and the dialect continuum that connects German to the neighboring...
    24 KB (2,801 words) - 10:06, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Low Franconian
    Germanic consonant shift into Low, Middle and High Franconian, with the use of Low signifying that this category did not participate in the sound shift. Despite...
    17 KB (1,944 words) - 21:13, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frankish language
    heavily influenced by Elbe Germanic dialects and the Second Germanic consonant shift and would form part of the modern Central Franconian and Rhine Franconian...
    59 KB (4,839 words) - 16:50, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dutch language
    between" them. Dutch, like English, has not undergone the High German consonant shift, does not use Germanic umlaut as a grammatical marker, has largely...
    190 KB (18,941 words) - 16:35, 9 July 2024
  • Spanish. Apophony Begadkefat Chain shift Consonant mutation Germanic spirant law Grimm's Law High German consonant shift Historical linguistics Rendaku (a...
    33 KB (3,066 words) - 21:10, 14 April 2024
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