(31-12-2025, 06:14 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[quote='JoJo_Jost' pid='76589' dateline='1767191703'].
So spoken Bavarian may well have been "mostly monosyllabic", as you say, already by the 1400s. In fact, considering what is happening to Italian "dialects", I bet that in recent times the pronunciation of Bavarian became closer to that of German...
Sorry, Jorge, I wanted to reply, but then I lost track again.
No, actually it's the other way around. Today, modern Bavarian is even more monosyllabic phonetically than it was in the 15th century. Bavarian is a dialect that differs significantly from High German, with its own sounds, grammar and many of its own words.
Bavarian is much older than High German! While the German written language originated in the 15th/16th century, the oldest Old Bavarian texts date back to the 8th century.