Second Consonant Shift/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Second Consonant Shift.

A sound change that took place in around AD 500 and which affected the southern or High German dialects. In these dialects initial, medial, and final West-Germanic */p, t, k/ shifted to fricatives and affricates.

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