Lowland Scots

[FRITZ JUENGLING]

Uh, all the Germanic languages participated in the 1st Sound Shift--that is what sets the Germanic langs apart from the rest of IE.  As far as the 2nd Sound Shift goes, it's not West Germanic, but High German--that's what sets High German off from Low German and the rest of the West Germanic languages.
Übrigens, warum ist das 'schade'?
Fritz Juengling

>>> einstein at FROGNET.NET 03/07/03 02:35PM >>>
>The list more or less arbitrarily excludes the
>Scandinavian languages

>Not arbitrary at all... as North Gmc languages they--and the East Gmc (e.g.
>Gothic) did not partake of the !st or 2nd Sound Shift, which is a West
>Germanic Shift.  Schade!
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