Talk:Middle High German
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I took out the family tree in the "Varieties" section (wikitext pasted below) because it doesn't belong in this article about the historical Middle High German language, but in the articles about modern Upper German and Central German dialects.
(this stuff is already in the appropriate articles on Upper and Central German)
Middle High German is not a unified written language and the term covers two main dialect areas:
- Upper German (Oberdeutsch)
- Alemannic (Alemannisch)
- Bavarian (Bayrisch)
- East Franconian (Ostfränkisch)
- South Franconian (Südfränkisch)
- Central German (Mitteldeutsch)
- Franconian (Westmitteldeutsch)
- Rhine Franconian (Rheinfränkisch)
- Middle Franconian (Mittelfränkisch)
- East Central German (Ostmitteldeutsch)
- Thuringian (Thüringisch)
- Upper Saxon (Obersächsisch)
- Silesian (Schlesisch)
- High Prussian (Hochpreußisch)
If anyone has verifiable information about different regional dialects of MHG, then they should add it.
CapnPrep 11:41, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
- Actually this is entirely verifiable: I took it directly from Paul/Wiehl/Grosse Mittlehochdeutstche Grammatik 23rd edition, paras 157 ff. I don't see that we can rely on the UG and CG pages to have accurate info about MHG. The Upper German page is completely useless for the purposes of MHG.
- Incidentally, the whole section about graphemes needs rewriting - as it stands almost all the info is about the conventions of modern editions, and is quite misleading presented as a description of MHG writing practices. --Pfold 22:21, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
