LL-L "Phonology" 2002.10.14 (05) [E]

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From: Ruud Harmsen <rh at rudhar.com>
Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2002.10.14 (01) [E]

12:23 14-10-2002 -0700, Lowlands-L:
>> I don't know if yiddish didn't carry the typical
>> German kind of "ue" and "oe" umlaut sounds,
>
>Yiddish, indeed, does not have these sounds:

Neither do many dialects in southern Germany and Austria.

>(by the way, in reading the above example please also note that Yiddish
>(unlike
>Standard German) pronounces the final consonant of "ich" with the
>consonant-sound
>that in Standard German does not occur in "ich" but does occur in
"ach".

As does Swiss German. Coincidence? I think not.

--
Ruud Harmsen <rh at rudhar.com>

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From: Daniel Prohaska <daniel at ryan-prohaska.com>
Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2002.10.14 (01) [E]

Corrections of blabber-letter: read <all> for <oll> (I´m afraid I´ve
been wriing too much Cornish recently!!!)

Derounding has occured in Highest Allemannic!!!

Dan

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From: Dan Prohaska <daniel at ryan-prohaska.com>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2002.10.13 (11) [E]

Kate wrote:

       < somewhat as if a variety of German existed somewhere which
formed >
< these words as "Tag/Täg - Hund/Hünd". (Does such a variety of German <
> > > exist?)>

/E:/ = long open e
/E/ = shor open e
/ê/ = schwa
/â/ = a-schwa from <-er>
/O:/ = long open o
/U/ = short lax u
/S/ = sh
/A:/ = long slightly velarised and raised a

Dear Kate,

Swabian has: /ta:k/ - /tE:k/ Tag - Tage = day - days
/fliêgê/ /E:r fluigt/  = fiegen, er
fliegt = to fly,

he flies

Central Bavarian: /jO:r/ - /ja:r/ Jahr - Jahre = year - years
/Swoav/ - /Sweaf/ Schweif - Schweife =
tail - tails
again /dO:x/ - /daX/ Tag - Tage = day - days

North Bavarian: /SdUk/ - /Sdikâ/ Stück - Stücke = piece - pieces

Upper Franconian: /bra:d/ - /brEdê/ - /bredzd/ breit -
breiter -
breitest = broad -
broader -broadest

Alsatian: /A:rm/ - /a:rm/ Arm - Arme = arm - arms
again /tA:j/ - /ta:j/ Tag - Tage = day - days

Swiss: /pruêf/ - /pryêf/ Prüfung - Prüfungen = exam, -s

Letzeburgsch / Luxemb.:
<Mount> - <Méint> Monat - Monate =
month, -s

Palatinate/Pfalz: /arêmê/ - /E:rêm/ arm - arms

Hessian: again /dA:x/ - /dE:S/ Tag - Tage = day, -s
/So:f/ - /Se:f/ Schaf - Schafe = sheep

Back to the Lowlands:

Westphalian: Druoppen - Drüöppen; Tropfen - Tropfen = drop,
-s

Yours, Dan

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