Assertion: different dialect | /r/CapableOf | form a language continuum
Facets:
value: in the north
type: LOCATION
value: through schleswig
type: LOCATION
value: from flanders
type: LOCATION
value: across to east prussia
type: LOCATION
value: from holland
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: German, although it had many different dialects which formed a language continuum from Holland and Flanders in the northwest, through Schleswig in the north across to East Prussia in the northeast, down to Styria and Lower Austria in the southeast and Bern and South Tyrol in the south, served as a lingua franca in large portions of Europe for centuries, mainly within the Holy Roman Empire and the eastern areas of the Kingdom of Prussia (which later included additional areas of previously Polish territory), and later within the Austro-Hungarian Empire and other areas where Germans settled, such as the Baltic States and Transylvania.