LL-L: "Language varieties" LOWLANDS-L, 21.JUL.2000 (01) [E]

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From: Stefan Israel [stefansfeder at yahoo.com]
Subject: "Language varieties"

John Feather johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk
asked:

> What does "strictly linguistically spoken" mean?
> Isn't German _defined_,
> linguistically, as the language affected by the High
> German sound shift?

No, German can mean all the dialects as well as the
standard language.  The northern third of Germany had
no High German sound shift, the middle third did not
shift completely, and even southern Germany did not
carry the shift through 100%.  Only the Alpine regions
underwent the complete shift (thus Swiss Kchind
instead of Kind).

Stefan Israel

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