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Kontinentalwestgermanisch
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German
Etymology
From de kontinental continental Westgermanisch West Germanic.
Not necessarily calqued on, but likely reinforced by nl Continentaalwestgermaans/Continentaal-Westgermaans/continentaal-westgermaans. Dutch linguists increasingly rejected the use of de Deutsch/nl Duits Duits(ch) for the entire continuum, because this use may suggest that Dutch somehow split off from the common source (when in fact all lects evolved continuously by diverging from each other and influencing each other at the same time).
Pronunciation
de /ˌkɔntinɛnˈtaːlˌvɛstɡɛʁˌmaːnɪʃ/
Proper noun
langname
de linguistics Continental West Germanic continuum in continental Europe among the descendants of Old High German, Old Dutch, Old Saxon, and (though sometimes excluded) Old Frisian
de archaic Deutsch Gesamtdeutsch neologisms Theodisk
Related terms
de kontinentalwestgermanisch