Re: German style orthography

J. 'Mach' Wust scripsit:

> I also imagine, again without any source, that the voiced stops/fricatives
> were always present in Low German. Maybe their occurrence in the actual
> "standard" pronunciation is due to a Low German substratum?
Standard German derives from a fusion of Middle and Upper German dialects
with Low German phonology, just as Standard Italian is "lingua toscana
in bocca romana."

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