Talk:Braunschweig
Latest comment: 8 months ago by 90.186.170.69 in topic Formal development
Formal development[edit]
The "correct" form Braunsweich occurs already in later Middle Low German when the written language, and names especially, were heavily influenced by High German. So it appears that the sch developed secondarily as a hypercorrection (i.e. making the High German even "more" High German by replacing sw with schw). The final g was a merely graphical change, because g was then not just commonly (as today) but universally pronounced /x/ in northern Germany. -- Putting this here for now because it would take a closer look at the chronology of the forms. 90.186.170.69 00:16, 21 September 2023 (UTC)