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    In historical and comparative linguistics, Low Franconian is a linguistic category used to classify a number of historical and contemporary West Germanic...
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    South Low Franconian (also: East Low Franconian) is a subgroup of the Continental West Germanic dialect continuum. South Low Franconian varieties are...
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    Old Dutch (redirect from Old Low Franconian)
    Oudnederlands) or Old Low Franconian (Modern Dutch: Oudnederfrankisch) is the set of dialects that evolved from Frankish spoken in the Low Countries during...
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    comprise the Low German and Low Franconian dialects. As members of the West Germanic language family, High German, Low German, and Low Franconian have been...
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    Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten and Suriname. It is a West Germanic, Low Franconian language that originated in the Early Middle Ages (c. 470) and was standardised...
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  • Upper German High Franconian East Franconian German South Franconian German Alemannic German Swabian German, including Stuttgart Low Alemannic German,...
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    "Franconian", the diachronical connection to the Frankish language, which was spoken by the Franks, is unclear. High German consonant shift, with Low Franconian...
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    Frankish (reconstructed endonym: *Frankisk), also known as Old Franconian or Old Frankish, was the West Germanic language spoken by the Franks from the...
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    other continental West Germanic languages, namely Low Franconian (including standard Dutch) and Low German, which experienced no shift. The shift resulted...
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    Central Franconian dialects are part of a continuum stretching from the Low Franconian language area in the northwest to the Rhine Franconian dialects...
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  • Limburgish (redirect from Low Rhinic)
    also Limburgian, Limburgic or Limburgan) refers to a group of South Low Franconian varieties spoken in Belgium and the Netherlands, characterized by their...
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    derived names of Francia and Franconia (and the adjectives Frankish and Franconian), are derived from the name given to a Germanic tribal confederation which...
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  • by the High German consonant shift, separating it from Low German (Low Saxon) and Low Franconian (including Dutch) within the continental West Germanic...
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    introduced by the German linguist Arend Mihm in 1992 to denote a group of Low Franconian dialects spoken in the greater Meuse-Rhine area, which stretches in...
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    Ripuarian belongs to the larger Central Franconian dialect family and also to the linguistic continuum with the Low Franconian languages. It is spoken in the Rhineland...
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    within the Franconian cluster, which is divided into Low Franconian, Middle Franconian and Upper Franconian even though the Low Franconian (incl. Dutch)...
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    Dutch language (category Low Franconian languages)
    West Germanic Low Franconian Dutch Afrikaans, Dutch-based creoles Dutch belongs to its own West Germanic sub-group, the Low Franconian languages, paired...
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    Central Dutch dialects. Other important language varieties of spoken Low Franconian languages are Brabantian, Flemish (East Flemish, West Flemish), Zeelandic...
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  • Look up Low German, Low Saxon, Niederdeutsch, Niedersächsisch, Plattdeutsch, niederdeutsch, or plattdeutsch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Low German...
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    it blends into the Low Franconian languages, including Dutch. A distinguishing feature between the Low Franconian varieties and Low German varieties is...
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  • Look up Old Frankish or Old Low Franconian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Old Franconian may mean: Old Frankish language, the Frankish language,...
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  • West Central German (notably Luxembourgish, Colognian and Hessian), High Franconian and Alemannic; and excludes all dialects of the Eastern group, such as...
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    linguistic transition region separated from Northern Germany (Low German/Low Franconian) by the Benrath line isogloss and separated from Southern Germany...
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    Franconia (redirect from Franconians)
    [ˈfʁaŋkn̩] ; East Franconian: Franggn [ˈfrɑŋɡŋ̍]; Bavarian: Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and East Franconian dialect (German:...
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    Kleverlandish (category Low Franconian languages)
    Kleverlandish (Dutch: Kleverlands; German: Kleverländisch) is a group of Low Franconian dialects spoken on both sides of the Dutch-German border along the Meuse...
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    (moribund) Low Prussian (moribund) Dutch Low Saxon Weser–Rhine Germanic / Istvaeonic languages Low Franconian Dutch West Flemish East Flemish Zeelandic...
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    Franks that stayed in the Low Countries had kept their original language, i.e., Old Dutch, also known as "Old Low Franconian" among linguists. At the time...
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    While Dutch is a Low Franconian language, the Dutch Low Saxon varieties form a dialect continuum with Westphalian. They consist of: West Low German, divided...
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    Afrikaans (category Low Franconian languages)
    Germanic Low Franconian Dutch Afrikaans Afrikaans descended from Dutch dialects in the 17th century. It belongs to a West Germanic sub-group, the Low Franconian...
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  • North Sea Germanic (category Articles containing Low German-language text)
    dialects, probably beginning around 700 CE. Low German also shares a number of features with Low Franconian dialects (Dutch) that are not shared by Anglo-Frisian...
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