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| | Old High German -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
 | | High German differs most noticeably from the other West Germanic languages in its shift of the p, t, and k sounds to ff, ss, and hh, respectively, after vowels and to pf, tz, and, in Upper German, kh under most other conditions. |
 | | High German differs most noticeably from the other West Germanic languages in its shift of the p, t, and k sounds to ff,ss, and hh, respectively, after vowels and to pf, tz, and, in Upper German, kh under most other conditions. |
 | | During Middle High German times (after 1100), a standard language based on the Upper German dialects (Alemannic and Bavarian) in the southernmost part of the German speech area began to arise. |
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