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 | | The chief characteristic of the division is to be sought in the ending of the first and third person plural of the present indicative of verbs, this being in the former case -en, in the latter -et. |
 | | The High Franconian dialects, that is to say, east and south (or south-Rheriish) Franconian, which are separated broadly speaking by the river Neckar, comprise the language spoken in a part of Baden, the dialects of the Main valley from Wurzburg upwards to Bamberg, the dialect of Nuremberg and probably of the Vogtland (Plauen) and Egerland. |
 | | Again while in Old High German the older diphthongs ai and au were preserved as el and on, unless they happened to stand at the end of a word or were followed by certain consonants (h, w, r in the one case, and 11, n, 1, n, th, d, t, I, Sin the other; cf. |
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