Speyer line

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -aɪn

Proper noun

the Speyer line

  1. (linguistics) In German dialectology, an isogloss separating the Central German dialects to the north (which have a stop in words like Appel (“apple”)) from the Upper German dialects to the south (which have an affricate).
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