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[Stuart L. <sl...@cc...>]

On 日, 2006-11-26 at 20:34 -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Because québécois and parisian are two different dialects of french.
> Neither is "higher" or "lower", but they are different. 

Moreover, ``High German'' and ``Low German'' refer to the altitude of
the places they are spoken in. High German is spoken in areas of higher
elevation, e.g., the mountains of Bavaria; Low German is spoken in the
low-lying areas near the north coast. So, ``high'' and ``low'' do not
denote value, but, rather, geography. Here's a quote from Wikipedia:

The High German languages (in German, Hochdeutsch) are any of the
varieties of standard German, Luxembourgish and Yiddish as well as the
local German dialects spoken in central and southern Germany, in
Austria, in Liechtenstein, in Switzerland, in Luxembourg and in
neighbouring portions of Belgium, France (Alsace and northern Lorraine),
Italy and Poland. It is also spoken in former colonial settlements, for
instance in Romania (Transylvania), Russia, U.S. or Namibia.

"High" refers to the mountainous areas of central and southern Germany
and the Alps, as opposed to Low German spoken along the flat sea coasts
of the north. High German can be subdivided into Upper German and
Central German (Oberdeutsch, Mitteldeutsch).

(From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_German_languages)

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