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From: Tom Gull <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] U106 in North Germany
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:19:31 -0400
References: <BF26BF957C31431AB7165F44FEAF929C@RichardNW>,<SNT131-ds121B3271BF31A31AE9EE74BCA60@phx.gbl>,<446F393937894211AD2C8D005ADC222E@RichardNW>
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That makes more sense to me than the definitions that put Frankfurt in northern Germany to build up enough U106 datapoints to support theories of U106 as a northern Germanic clade <g>.

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> To:
> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:37:54 -0400
> Subject: Re: [DNA] U106 in North Germany
>
> I realize defining North Germany is a problem, but I was thinking in terms
> of the old tripartite major dialect division of Germany into Niederdeutsch,
> Mitteldeutsch, and Hochdeutsch (or Süddeutsch), kind of like what this very
> simplified map shows:
>
> http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa051898.htm
>
> The Niederdeutsch dialect area runs roughly (very roughly) north of the
> Düsseldorf-Leipzig line.
>
> Rich
>


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