ABSTRACT
High Alemannic is usually considered to be delimited in the north by the Kind/Chind isogloss. (The transitional nature of the area between High Alemannic and Swabian is dealt with in Chapter 11, section 2). Other features which characterize High Alemannic are: monophthongal reflexes of MHG î, i, û, front rounded vowels, the distinction between fortis and lenis consonants, and the retention of long geminate intervocalic obstruents. It is generally regarded as being conservative, i.e. as not having undergone many of the changes which characterize New High German. Maurer (1942: 128) refers to it as South Alemannic (Südalemannisch).
