rhenish fan

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What does rhenish fan mean?

A set of isoglosses in West Central German showing how the effect of the High German consonant shift gradually decreases towards the north-west (i.e. towards Low Franconian and Low Saxon)

Where does rhenish fan come from?

Calque of German Rheinischer Fächer. So called because all or most of the isoglosses collapse in Hesse and fan out to the west.

How to pronounce rhenish fan

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