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L O W L A N D S - L  -  04 December 2007 - Volume 01
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From: Wesley Parish <wes.parish at paradise.net.nz>
Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2007.12.03 (03) [E]

On Tuesday 04 December 2007 06:48, Lowlands-L List wrote:
<snip>
> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Phonology
>
> Hi, Helge! Great to hear from you, as always.
>
> You may have a point there, which may or may not contradict the theory of
> Low Franconian influence in the east. As far as I know, the area we talked
> about earlier is not contiguous with Holstein. At least I'm not aware of
> /g/ [j] in Mecklenburg dialects.
>
<snip>
> I don't find any indication that there was g ~ y alternation in Old Saxon,
> which doesn't mean that there couldn't have been such in some dialects.

There's bound to have been a g - y alternation in the Old Saxon/Ancient (ie,
unattested) Frisian language/s.  It's one of the most obvious features of
Old
English, ie:
giefu - gift
gedon - done, made
gegan - gone

In the case of the Old English group of dialects, one - the y set in Wessex
and Mercia - predominated because of King Alfred the Great's influence, but
the g set came into prominence much later.

Where were Genesis and the other fragments of Old Saxon, written down?  It -
and the Old English corpus - are a rather fragmentary attestation of a large
group of dialects.  They're only an attestation of the language in that
particular dialect area.

FWIW, and my 0.02c - highly inflated as usual! ;)

Wesley Parish

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