Georg Wenker

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Georg Wenker

German linguist

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…initiator of this great undertaking, Georg Wenker, composed 40 test sentences that illustrated most of the important ways in which dialects differed and sent them to schoolmasters in over 40,000 places in the German Empire. The sentences were to be translated into the local dialect. Publication of the results was…
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…initiator of this great undertaking, Georg Wenker, composed 40 test sentences that illustrated most of the important ways in which dialects differed and sent them to schoolmasters in over 40,000 places in the German Empire. The sentences were to be translated into the local dialect. Publication of the results was…
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