Boppard line
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In German
linguistics, the Boppard Line is an isogloss
separating the dialects to the north, which have an /f/ as in the word Korf, "basket", from the dialects to the south (including standard German), which have a /b/: Korb. The line runs from east to west and crosses the river Rhine at the town of Boppard
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German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
linguistics, the Boppard Line is an isogloss
Isogloss
An isogloss—also called a heterogloss —is the geographical boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or use of some syntactic feature...
separating the dialects to the north, which have an /f/ as in the word Korf, "basket", from the dialects to the south (including standard German), which have a /b/: Korb. The line runs from east to west and crosses the river Rhine at the town of Boppard
Boppard
Boppard is a town in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, lying in the Rhine Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It belongs to no Verbandsgemeinde. The town is also a state-recognized tourism resort and is a winegrowing centre.-Location:Boppard lies on the upper Middle...
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See also
- High German consonant shiftHigh German consonant shiftIn historical linguistics, the High German consonant shift or second Germanic consonant shift is a phonological development that took place in the southern parts of the West Germanic dialect continuum in several phases, probably beginning between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD, and was almost...