Chatti, side remark

It's interesting that geminates at first were excepted from the 2nd
(High German) sound shift
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_German_consonant_shift
see 'Phase 1'
which is what one would expect if the Chatti etc were the ones who
gave these words (and pronunciations) to Germanic and themselves
became a lower social layer in the emerging Ariovistus-Germanic
culture in Thuringia and further south in Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DeutschesSprachgebiet962.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:German_dialectal_map.PNG


Torsten