Rhenish fan

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Etymology

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Calque of German Rheinischer Fächer. So called because all or most of the isoglosses collapse in Hesse and fan out to the west.

Proper noun

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Rhenish fan

  1. (linguistics) A set of isoglosses in West Central German showing how the effect of the High German consonant shift gradually decreases towards the north-west (i.e. towards Low Franconian and Low Saxon)

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Further reading

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  • LVR-Institut für Landeskunde und Regionalgeschichte, Landschaftsverband Rheinland: Rheinischer Fächer, Dialekte im Rheinland
  • Johannes Venema, Zum Stand der zweiten Lautverschiebung im Rheinland: Diatopische, diachrone und diastratische Untersuchungen am Beispiel der dentalen Tenuis (voralthochdeutsch /t/), Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart, 1997, chapter Der "Rheinische Fächer" on p. 10–13
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