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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Language politics" 2008.12.02 (03)
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Ron/Reinhard: can you
decide whether or not to pass this information on</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">re a new subject???</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">We have just had this
address posted on our UK Language forum.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> <a href="http://sprachatlas.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/" target="_blank">http://sprachatlas.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Is it already too well
known to send to the forum? Or is it a new Goodie? Or possibly a never
ending source of Yes it is /No it isn't debates?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">bw from a freezing UK</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Heather</span></p>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>>
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Subject: Resources<br>
<br>
Thanks, Heather.<br>
<br>
The information is marginally relevant. (Few topics are totally irrelevant to
our focus.)<br>
<br>
The language varieties you see in the northern part of Bavaria are the High
Frankish (and some Central Frankish) ones that are on a continuum with the
Central Frankish ones of the Rhenish area to the northwest, and these are
further connected with the Low Frankish ones farther west-northwest, to which
Dutch belongs. Frankish is a band of varieties that spreads from Holland to Lower Bavaria and into parts of Saxony and Thuringia on northwest-to-southeast angle. The High
Frankish varieties have all the features of High German, such as
diphthongization (e.g. uu > au, ii > ai), affricatization (e.g. t > ts
> ss, p > pf > ff, k (> kx) > x) and devocing (e.g. d > t).<br>
<br>
Regards from currently damp and relatively mild Western
Washington,<br>
Reinhard/Ron</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>