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High German subdivides into Upper German (green) and Central German (blue), and is distinguished from Low German (yellow). The main isoglosses, the Benrath and Speyer lines, are marked in black.

In historical linguistics, the High German consonant shift or Second Germanic consonant shift was a phonological development (sound change) which took place in the southern dialects of the West Germanic in several phases, probably beginning between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD, and was almost complete before the earliest written records in the High German language were made in the 9th century. The resulting language, Old High German, can neatly be contrasted with the other continental west Germanic languages, which mostly did not experience the shift, and with Old English, which was completely unaffected.

General description

The High German consonant shift altered a number of consonants in the Southern German dialects, and thus also in modern Standard German, and so explains why many German words have different consonants from the obviously related words in English. Briefly, there are four thrusts which may be thought of as four successive phases:

Germanic voiceless stops became fricatives in certain phonetic environments (English ship maps to German Schiff);The same sounds became affricates in other positions (apple → Apfel);Voiced stops became voiceless (day → Tag); and/θ/ became /d/ (this → dies). LAIMS. Home   alse   ALSelf Storage   Foley Alabama   ALMoving Companies Foley Alabama   AL Interstate Moving Services   Local Movers   Seminole Alabama   ALMoving Companies Seminole Alabama   Gulf Shores Alabama   ALMoving Companies Gulf Shores Alabama   Silverhill Alabama   ALMoving Companies Silverhill Alabama   Lillian Alabama   ALMoving Companies Lillian Alabama   Spanish Fort Alabama   ALMoving Companies Spanish Fort Alabama   Little River Alabama   ALMoving Companies Little River Alabama   Stapleton Alabama   ALMoving Companies Stapleton Alabama   Loxley Alabama   ALMoving Companies Loxley Alabama   Stockton Alabama   ALMoving Companies Stockton Alabama   Magnolia Springs Alabama   ALMoving Companies Magnolia Springs Alabama   Summerdale Alabama   ALMoving Companies Summerdale Alabama   ALLocal Movers   De Kalb Alabama   ALInterstate Moving Companies   Collinsville Alabama   ALMoving Companies Collinsville Alabama   Home Movers ALSelf Storage   Henagar Alabama   ALMoving Companies Henagar Alabama   Crossville Alabama   ALMoving Companies Crossville Alabama   Ider Alabama   ALMoving Companies Ider Alabama