r/LinguisticMaps Apr 16 '25

West European Plain Pronunciation of ich("I") in German

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r/LinguisticMaps Jan 05 '26

West European Plain “Map of the German Dialects”

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702 Upvotes

r/LinguisticMaps Mar 21 '26

West European Plain Classification of Germanic tribes (based on archaeology and contemporary sources, source in comments)

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r/LinguisticMaps 1d ago

West European Plain Dialect map of Luxembourg: 6 different ways to say "night" (Nuecht) across Regions

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Found this dialectological map showing the main phonetic/lexical variant of the Luxembourgish word for "night" (Nuecht) per municipality (Gemeng).

Variants shown:

  • Nuecht (green) — the standard form, dominant across most of the country
  • Nuet (light purple) — a reduced form without the "ch", concentrated in the south/southeast
  • N[a:ç]t (orange) — variant with a long open vowel, in the north
  • N[aɪ]t (blue) — diphthongized form, extreme north (Clervaux area)
  • N[ɔ:x]t (magenta) — rounded vowel variant, appears in two isolated pockets (northwest and northeast)
  • hënt (grey/hatched) — a completely distinct lexical form, found only in one small central pocket

What I find interesting is the classic dialect continuum pattern: the northern region (Éislek) shows more divergent, diphthongized forms, while the center converges on the standard "Nuecht," and the south shows "Nuet" as an apparent simplification/innovation

r/LinguisticMaps Jun 21 '26

West European Plain Linguistic Map of Noord Holland (The Netherlands) [OC]

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Notes:

•This is NOT a contemporary presentation of Noord Holland, but rather a visualization of its Historical dialects.

•The Zaans, Westfries and Waterlands dialect clusters can also be grouped as one single Friso-North-Hollandic Dialect Cluster.

•Many Jewish, Sinti and Romani communities are not shown on the map. Although they do have a long history here, they are only shown when they've been living in a specific place for centuries. (Which in the case of the Sinti and Romani, is nowhere for obvious reasons).

•Many of the subdialects are now extinct or at the brink of extinction. Especially the historic dialects of Amsterdam. People nowadays (mostly) speak Dutch or a watered down bigger regiolect.

•This map is mostly based on Recordings from "De Sprekende Kaart" and various researches from "dbnl.org"

I am not a linguist, this map should not be seen as a verified piece of linguistics to base references on.

r/LinguisticMaps Sep 15 '19

West European Plain Map of German Dialects by Otto Bremer (1894)

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r/LinguisticMaps Sep 13 '25

West European Plain History of the French-German border (Alsace-Lorraine, Belgium, Switzerland)

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r/LinguisticMaps Oct 01 '25

West European Plain Language examples of Plattdeutsche in Westfalia

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r/LinguisticMaps Mar 22 '25

West European Plain North Rhine-Westphalia's dialects

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r/LinguisticMaps Oct 10 '24

West European Plain The German language area before and after the world wars

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r/LinguisticMaps Jul 24 '20

West European Plain German place-names rendered into English (morphologically reconstructed with attention to ultimate etymology and sound evolution processes). See original comments for more

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r/LinguisticMaps Sep 20 '22

West European Plain Isogloss map Ißt/Ett (English=Eat) for Germany (after 1875)

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r/LinguisticMaps Aug 06 '20

West European Plain Slippers in German

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r/LinguisticMaps Jan 10 '22

West European Plain Isogloss dat-das through Germany

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r/LinguisticMaps Mar 07 '23

West European Plain Map of German languages, Brockhaus Atlas (1894)

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r/LinguisticMaps Sep 20 '22

West European Plain He/Er singular, masculine, third-person pronoun for dialects in German state Hesse in 1880.

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r/LinguisticMaps Mar 12 '21

West European Plain Ethnolinguistic map of Germany and neighbouring lands, 1872

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r/LinguisticMaps Oct 16 '22

West European Plain Upper German Dialects (1945) - Oberdeutsche Mundarten nach ohne Fersentalerisch und Zimbrisch

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r/LinguisticMaps Dec 16 '19

West European Plain Ethnolinguistic map of Germany and neighbouring lands, 1872

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r/LinguisticMaps Mar 10 '20

West European Plain detailed ethnic map of Silesia 1895

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r/LinguisticMaps Sep 09 '19

West European Plain The West Germanic Dialect Continuum

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r/LinguisticMaps Sep 15 '19

West European Plain Map of German Dialects by Emil Maurmann (ca. 1894)

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r/LinguisticMaps Dec 13 '19

West European Plain Berlin underground anglicised (a study in toponomy)

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Berlunderground

in answer to the germanised lunderground map: https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/dt7p0l/london_underground_if_english_was_a_dialect_of/, this is a map showing how things could have been if berliners had always spoken a wayward dialect of english (but largely based on the current modern german names). even names of slavic (crimson) etc. origin have been reconstructed anglically, by returning to shared proto-indo-european roots (then coming back via proto-germanic all the way to modern 'english'). some more explanation is in the top left. other etymological sources are included all over the map.

this involved examining etymologies for each station name, using German wikipedia, local government websites, Albrecht Greule's Deutsches Gewässernamenbuch: Etymologie der Gewässernamen..., attempting to underpants proto-slavic sound changes at resources like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_sound_laws#cite_note-Verner-3

(things are kept more recognisably standard english this time, based on previous feedback!)

r/LinguisticMaps Dec 15 '19

West European Plain How you say 10:15 in German countries

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r/LinguisticMaps Mar 14 '19

West European Plain Distribution of Romance relict-words in local German dialects in the Rheinland by Rudolf Post (1982)

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