In historical linguistics, Bartsch's law or the Bartsch effect (French: loi de Bartsch, pronounced [lwa də baʁtʃ] or effet de Bartsch) is the name of a sound change that took place in the early history of the langues d'oïl (c. 5th–6th centuries AD), for example in the development of Old French. It is named for the German medievalist Karl Bartsch.
In historical linguistics, Bartsch's law or the Bartsch effect (French: loi de Bartsch, pronounced [lwa də baʁtʃ] or effet de Bartsch) is the name of a sound change that took place in the early history of the langues d'oïl (c. 5th–6th centuries AD), for example in the development of Old French. It is named for the German medievalist Karl Bartsch.
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