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Old High German is an inflected language, and as such its nouns, pronouns, and adjectives must be declined in order to serve a grammatical function. A set of declined forms of the same word pattern is called a declension. There are five grammatical cases in Old High German.
The status in the Old High German Tatian (c. 830), as is reflected in modern Old High German dictionaries and glossaries, is that th is found in initial position and d in other positions. It is not clear whether Old High German /x/ had acquired a palatalized allophone [ç] after front vowels, as is the case in Modern German.
Old High German declension; H. High German consonant shift; R. Rhinelandic Rhyming Bible This page was last edited on 25 February 2022, at 14:16 (UTC). Text is ...
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As an example, there are fewer than 500 years between the Gothic Gospels of 360 CE (see Ulfilas) and the Old High German Tatian of 830 CE, yet Old High German, despite being the most archaic of the West Germanic languages, is missing a large number of archaic features present in Gothic, including dual and passive markings on verbs ...
Examples of consonant changes resulting from the High German consonant shift, according to Polenz (2020), pp. 44–45 and Schweikle (1996), pp. 129–131 Type of stop Position Proto-Germanic/Pre-Old High German Phoneme Old High German Phoneme Old High German word modern standard German equivalent Old Saxon equivalent modern English equivalent ...
The High German languages (German: hochdeutsche Mundarten, i.e. High German dialects), or simply High German (Hochdeutsch [ˈhoːxˌdɔɪ̯t͡ʃ] ⓘ) – not to be confused with Standard High German which is commonly also called "High German" – comprise the varieties of German spoken south of the Benrath and Uerdingen isoglosses in central and southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein ...
North Germanic * āra > Old Norse ár, West Germanic * jāra > Old High German jār, Old English ġēar [jæ͡ɑːr] vs. Gothic jēr. The raising of [ɔː] to [oː] (and word-finally to [uː]). The original vowel remained when nasalised *ǭ [ɔ̃ː] and when before /z/, and was then later lowered to [ɑː].