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Old High German (OHG; German: Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050. Rather than representing a single supra-regional form of German, Old High German encompasses the numerous West Germanic dialects that had undergone the set of consonantal ...
German dialects are the various traditional local varieties of the German language.Though 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 shift, and the dialect continuum that connects German to the neighboring varieties of Low Franconian and Frisian.
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 ...
Map showing the main Old High German scriptoria and the areas of the Old High German "monastery dialects" The Old High German period sees the first attempts to use the Latin alphabet for writing German, something which Otfrid of Weissenburg , writing c. 830, recognized as fraught with difficulty. [ 5 ]
The split of the Class II weak verb ending *-ō-into *-ō-/-ōja-(cf. Old English -ian < -ōjan, but Old High German -ōn). Development of a plural ending *-ōs in a-stem nouns (note, Gothic also has -ōs , but this is an independent development, caused by terminal devoicing of *-ōz ; Old Frisian has -ar , which is thought to be a late ...
The accent varies from place to place depending on the grade of the High German consonant shift: Meißen dialect, which remained in the former margraviate after the development of the New High German standard variety, spoken from Meißen District and Central Saxony up the Elbe River to Saxon Switzerland including the Dresden metrolect.
High Prussian (German: Hochpreußisch) is a group of East Central German dialects in former East Prussia, in present-day Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and Kaliningrad Oblast . High Prussian developed in the 13th–15th centuries, brought in by German settlers mainly from Silesia and Thuringia , and was influenced by the Baltic Old Prussian language.
Old Saxon etan : OHG ezzan (English eat, modern German essen) Old Saxon bîtan : OHG bîzan (English bite, modern German beißen) Old Saxon ût : OHG ûz (English out, modern German aus) Both shifts to /t/ occur in all High German dialects. [16] However, the Central German Middle Franconian dialects show unshifted final /t/ for neuter pronouns ...