In this area the second German phonetic shift was only partially carried out. The Ripuarian dialects and dialects spoken south of it in the area of the Rhenish fan are largely counted as Central German . The further north a dialect is in the Rhenish fan, the more it resembles Low German or Low Franconian. The unit plural line, the northernmost line of the Rhenish fan, is the language border to Westphalian .
↑ a b c d e f Johannes Venema: On the status of the second sound shift in the Rhineland: diatopic, diachronic and diastratic examinations using the example of the dental Tenuis (early High German / T /), Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997, pp. 10-12 [1]
↑ Kurt Gärtner : Scripta, writing landscapes and standardization tendencies: document languages in the border area of Germania and Romania in the 13th and 14th centuries: Contributions to the colloquium from September 16 to 18, 1998 in Trier, Kliomedia, 2001, p. 566 [2]