However, both types of evidence are often difficult to interpret, because the phonetic terminology of the time was often vague, and it is often not clear in what relation the described forms of the language stand to those which were actually spoken by different groups of the population.
Beide Arten von Beweisen sind oft schwierig zu interpretieren, da auch die phonetische Terminologie dieser Zeit oft vage war und es oft nicht klar ist, in welcher Relation die beschriebenen Formen zu denen, die eigentlich von den breiteren Schichten der Bevölkerung gesprochen wurden, stehen.