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What does the Second (High German) Sound Shift — the zweite or hochdeutsche Lautverschiebung — describe?

The adaptation of Latin vocabulary into French loanwords during the Middle Ages A general lengthening of vowels that produced all modern German diphthongs The systematic shifting of Germanic consonants (e.g. p → pf/f, t → ts/s, k → ch) that separates High German from English and Dutch The loss of all grammatical case endings in Early New High German

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The systematic shifting of Germanic consonants (e.g. p → pf/f, t → ts/s, k → ch) that separates High German from English and Dutch

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