consonant shift

During the Soviet rule one could observe what might seem motivation to simplify consonant shift further.

Further in a number of words consonant shift has been dropped to avoid homophony, thus gen. pl.

The High German consonant shift did not occur in a single movement, but rather as a series of waves over several centuries.

The impact of the High German consonant shift increases gradually to the South.

See High German consonant shift.

The Frankish tribes built their empire at the same time as the High German consonant shift took place.

For one thing, "the great consonant shift" (formulated by Jakob Grimm in 1822) was then undreamed of.

Since the Second Consonant Shift was beginning to occur at this time, Robinson says:

A 2000 handbook on Latvian orthography lists the following words as exceptions to consonant shift due to reasons of euphony.

North of the Benrather line up to the North Sea, this consonant shift had not been happening.

The southernmost varieties have completed the second sound shift, while the northern dialects remained unaffected by the consonant shift.

Central German is distinguished by having experienced only the first and fourth phases of the High German consonant shift.

For the developments in German and Dutch see High German consonant shift.

"Chatti" was probably originating "Hesse" through the High German consonant shifts.

In Old High German the stops were moved according to the High German consonant shift.

The difference is that the East Low German varieties have not been affected by the High German consonant shift.

Of the other changes that sometimes are bracketed within the High German consonant shift, the most important (sometimes thought of as the fourth phase) is:

In some words, the reduplicated consonant shifts from their lenis value to their fortis value.

Towards the Elbe region in the southeast, the language area is ncreasingly influenced by the High German consonant shift.

German dialects which did not take part in the High German consonant shift, such as Low German, still use up or op.

According to most scholars, the pre-Old High German runic inscriptions of about a. 600 show no convincing trace of the consonant shift.

So it is best to see the consonant shift as a common Lombardic-Bavarian-Alemannic shift between 620 and 640, when these tribes had plenty of contact.

The th sounds, which the English language still has, disappeared on the continent in German with the consonant shifts between the 8th and the 10th centuries.

Low German is a West Germanic language of the lowlands and as such did not experience the High German consonant shift.

Consonant shift (stem-final iotation and palatalization)