Re: Announcement: New auxlang "Choton"

Quoting "J. 'Mach' Wust" <j_mach_wust@...>:

> Like that, the phonemic/phonological system of your variety of standard
> German is quite different from the one of the Siebs standard and of most
> other regions of the German speaking area (places as different as
> Switzerland or Lower Saxony (see e.g. an Osnabrück paper at
> http://tobiasthelen.de/schrift_ist_berechenbar.html ). That's remarkable!
Tangentially, my mother's native 'lect differs from more standardesque variants
of Swedish in exactly the same way, maintaining a distinction 'tween short 'e'
and 'ä' (not always coincident with the orthography). But if some old phonology
books I've seen are anything to go by, the standard maintained the distinction
till a couple generations ago, which I guess is quite different from the German
situation.

                                                    Andreas

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