of Palatine,
Fraktur script To the northwest, Palatine German is separated from
Moselle Franconian by the
das/
dat-isogloss (Palatine German uses
das or similar forms) and the absence of
Rhenish pitch accent. To the southeast, it borders on
South Franconian, separated by the
Appel/
Apfel-line (Palatine German:
Appel). Within the greater Rhine Franconian dialect area, the traditional defining isoglosses are the northern
fescht/
fest-line that separates Palatine German (
fescht) from the Hessian dialects (
fest), and the southern
Haus/
Hus-line that separates Palatine German (
Haus) from
Lorraine Franconian (
Hus). Like other Rhine Franconian dialects, Palatine German has
e-apocope (i.e. loss of earlier final
-e),
n-apocope (i.e. loss of earlier final
n in the suffix
-en) and /oː/ for earlier long
a, e.g.
Strooß/
Strooße 'street'/'streets' (cf. Standard German
Straße/
Straßen). The major division of Palatine German into and is based on a bundle of distinguishing features, such as: • lacks the suffix
-en in the past participle of strong verbs (e.g.
gebroch 'broken',
geschripp 'written'). In , the suffix is retained as
-e (with
apocope of
n, e.g.
gebroche,
geschriwwe). • Loss of medial
g in in words like
frooe (cf. Standard German
fragen). In , it is retained as a
voiced velar fricative (
frooche ). •
han/
hun '(I) have' against
hap/
häp. ==Samples==