Re: NATLANG: High German Consonant Shift

J. 'Mach' Wust wrote:

>On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 16:11:17 +0100, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
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>>Right now, I'm making a heavily High-German-influenced language,
>>currently under the pseudonym of 'Latinesque'(I've made it once before,
>>and am now redoing it, because the other one was not nearly
>>realistic/rigorous enough).   I'm not sure whether the name will stick
>>or not.  Anyway, I'm trying to come up with a background history to go
>>with the language, as I find the current I little lacking.
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>>Basically, I need some estimated dates for the High-German consonant
>>shift.  Within a century should do fine.
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>The book I have at hand, an introduction to Middle-High-German, gives two dates:
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>The name of the Hunnish leader Attila (died in 453) has been affected
>(Etzel), so at his time, the Second Germanic sound shift hadn't occurred
>yet. There's the Wurmlingen lance peak from the beginning of the 7th century
>with a shifted name: IDORIH (not -rik); and Langobardian law book 'Edictus
>Rothari' from around 643 also shows shifted words, e.g. _sculdhais_ (cf.
>Anglosaxon _scyldhaeta_).
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>So it might have happened in the 6th century.
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Both of those examples are in South Germany, though, aren't they?  Is it
known when it reached(roughly) the extent it does now?