"
Germanic:
Dialects throughout Switzerland, Austria, Southern Germany.
North German dialects shade(d) into Dutch to the west, Danish ones
to the north.
Scandinavia is a particularly famous paradigm case of dialect continua.
"
Sigh. You can stomp out that error as often as you want, it
regenerates itself spontaneously in the minds of Anglo-Saxons every
time (and now I expect a lot of confusion as people make wrong guesses
about what the error is).