Simon shows you maps - Linguistic #map of #Germany. Besides the Central Bavarian dialect from my home town I'd have to say that Westphalian (ideally spoken by a drunk chain smoker) is
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A diagram showing the problem dialect chains cause for the construction... | Download Scientific Diagram
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A diagram showing the problem dialect chains cause for the construction... | Download Scientific Diagram
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Nathan Clark on X: "Dialect chains: a set of contiguous dialects nearest to each other at any place in the chain are most closely related http://t.co/sMpGbRYh1i" / X
Polyglot Club Setif - A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a spread of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighbouring varieties differ only slightly, but the differences accumulate
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Syllable Structure Spatially Distributed: Patterns of Monosyllables in German Dialects | Journal of Germanic Linguistics | Cambridge Core
A chain shift in Indo-Aryan, with special reference to Gujarati dialects in: Language Dynamics and Change Volume 12 Issue 1 (2022)
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Basic sociolinguistic facts: languages, dialects, numbers of speakers (Chapter 9) - Language and Development in Africa
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