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    In German linguistics, the Benrath line (German: Benrather Linie) is the maken–machen isogloss: dialects north of the line have the original /k/ in maken...
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    line Central German is spoken. In the area between the Uerdingen line and the Benrath line to its south, which includes parts of Belgium and the Netherlands...
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    Benrath (German pronunciation: [ˈbɛnʁaːt]) is a quarter of Düsseldorf in the south of the city, part of Borough 9. It has been a part of Düsseldorf since...
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  • Düsseldorf-Benrath Benrath line, a term of German linguistics (the maken-machen isogloss) Karl Benrath (1845–1924), German church historian Martin Benrath (1926–2000)...
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    Isogloss (redirect from Isolexic line)
    isoglosses, such as the Benrath line that distinguishes High German from the other West Germanic languages and the La Spezia–Rimini Line that divides the Northern...
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    German/Low Franconian) by the Benrath line isogloss and separated from Southern Germany (Upper German) by the Speyer line. Central German is spoken in...
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    Pfaffenhofen and Pforzheim, lie mostly to the south. Benrath line High German consonant shift Uerdingen line Rolf Bergmann; Claudine Moulin; Nikolaus Ruge (2019)...
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    defined a Bergisch dialect group that includes the dialects North of Benrath line spoken to the east of the Rhine to about Essen, Mülheim and Wuppertal...
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    varied by region, those of the southern half of Germany beneath the Benrath line are dominated by the geographical spread of the High German consonant...
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    the line Arnhem – Kleve – Wesel – Duisburg – Wuppertal (along the Rhine-IJssel Line). The Diest-Nijmegen Line is its western border, the Benrath line (from...
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    Germans in the southernmost part of Denmark. In the south the Benrath line and Uerdingen line isoglosses form the border with the area, where West Central...
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    Low Franconian languages. It is spoken in the Rhineland south of the Benrath line — from northwest of Düsseldorf and Cologne to Aachen in the west and...
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    German, the maken–machen line, is sometimes called the Benrath line, as it passes through the Düsseldorf suburb of Benrath, while the main boundary between...
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  • Germany generally refers to the Sprachraum area north of the Uerdingen and Benrath line isoglosses, where Low German dialects are spoken. These comprise the...
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    students at the RWTH Aachen University. Aachen is at the western end of the Benrath line that divides High German to the south from the rest of the West Germanic...
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    Dutch Middle Dutch Traditionally, the Uerdingen line (separating ik and ich 'I') and the Benrath line (separating maken and machen 'to make') have been...
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    dialects are only spoken in the very south of the city, south of the Benrath line. after Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt and Stuttgart From...
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    is some disagreement as to whether all Hessian dialects south of the Benrath line may be subsumed under one dialect group: Rhine Franconian, or whether...
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  • from its only adjacent German dialect, Low Prussian, by the Benrath line and the Uerdingen line, the latter dialect being Low German. This was once one of...
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    German consonant shift occurred south of an east-west zone called the Benrath Line. The Rhine crosses it in the vicinity of Düsseldorf. The section of the...
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  • consonant shift occurred between the 4th and 9th centuries south of the Benrath line, separating High German from Low German (where high refers to areas of...
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    71. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1953, S. 166–186. Note: The line is not the same as the later Benrath Line, which reached this position only in the High Middle...
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  • of the Low Franconian varieties positioned between the Uerdingen and Benrath line. In more recent linguistic publications, some linguists further narrow...
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  • German refers to all dialects of the German language spoken south of the Benrath line. However, since the standard German language grew mostly out of a High...
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  • its only adjacent German dialect, High Prussian, by the Benrath line and the Uerdingen line, the latter dialect being Central German. This was once one...
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  • much more closely related to Dutch than to High German, despite the Benrath line north of which the sound shift (mainly) was not carried out. The Old...
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  • Bergish) / Low German Uerdingen line (Uerdingen) (Ürdinger Linie) ik/ick ich South Low Franconian (Limburgish) Benrath line (Benrather Linie) (Boundary:...
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    word Kietz, ‘city neighborhood.’ The city of Berlin lies south of the Benrath Line and has been influenced by Low and Central German since its first documented...
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  • Low German, spoken across the whole of Northern Germany north of the Benrath Line in the Middle Ages, was a distinct West Germanic language. From the start...
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    Germanic languages. Like Dutch, it has historically been spoken north of the Benrath and Uerdingen isoglosses, while forms of High German (of which Standard...
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