Why does German sound very different in Lörrach than in Brandenburg? Of course it is due to the dialects, but how can it be that a common language can sound so different? Dialects emerged at a time when people rarely traveled far. Villages and regions developed their own pronunciation and their own words. Thus, for centuries, linguistic peculiarities such as the Alemannic in South Baden arose. Dialects are therefore something like a linguistic f…
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Why does German sound very different in Lörrach than in Brandenburg? Of course it is due to the dialects, but how can it be that a common language can sound so different? Dialects emerged at a time when people rarely traveled far. Villages and regions developed their own pronunciation and their own words. Thus, for centuries, linguistic peculiarities such as the Alemannic in South Baden arose. Dialects are therefore something like a linguistic f…