Franconian or Frankish is a collective term traditionally used by linguists to refer to many West Germanic languages, some of which are spoken in what...
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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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Old Dutch (redirect from Old Low Franconian)
In linguistics, Old Dutch (Modern Dutch: Oudnederlands) or Old Low Franconian (Modern Dutch: Oudnederfrankisch) is the set of dialects that evolved from...
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Lorraine Franconian (native name: Plàtt or lottrìnger Plàtt; French: francique lorrain or platt lorrain; ‹See Tfd›German: Lothringisch) is an ambiguous...
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Ripuarian language (redirect from Ripuarian Franconian)
or Ripuarian Franconian is a German dialect group, part of the West Central German language group. Together with the Moselle Franconian which includes...
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German language (section Low Franconian)
(mainly Alemannic, but also Central–and Upper Franconian dialects) and Lorraine Franconian (Central Franconian). After these High German dialects, standard...
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Frankish language (redirect from Old Franconian language)
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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High German from other continental West Germanic languages, namely Low Franconian (including standard Dutch) and Low German, which experienced no shift...
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Languages of the Netherlands (section Low Franconian)
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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Name of the Franks (section Franconian vs. Frankish)
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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as Upper German. In the Middle High German time, East Franconian and sometimes South Franconian are added to this. Swabian splits off from Alemannic due...
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Central German (redirect from Central Germany (linguistics))
linguistic transition region separated from Northern Germany (Low German/Low Franconian) by the Benrath line isogloss and separated from Southern Germany (Upper...
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Limburgish (category Low Franconian languages)
consonant shift. It is nevertheless most common in linguistics to consider Limburgish as Low Franconian. The traditional terminology can be confusing as...
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they speak Saxon, Bavarian, Allemanic (Swabian), Thuringian or Franconian. In linguistics of German, German dialects are distinguished from varieties of...
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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 the...
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Eifel rule (section High Franconian)
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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Pitch-accent language (redirect from Franconian tone accent)
is true of many pitch-accent languages, there are others, such as the Franconian dialects, in which the contours vary, for example between declarative...
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Dutch language (category Low Franconian languages)
loanwords in Old French. The term Old Dutch or Old Low Franconian refers to the set of Franconian dialects (i.e. West Germanic varieties that are assumed...
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Dialect (redirect from Regionalism (linguistics))
an obscure foreign species of plant, speakers of Westphalian and East Franconian German might each consult a German dictionary or ask a German-speaking...
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Flemish dialects (redirect from Flemish linguistics)
Flemish (Vlaams) is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (Vlaams-Nederlands), Belgian Dutch...
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present as a substrate or superstrate in some of the Central Franconian and Rhine Franconian dialects of Old High German Elbe Germanic, ancestral to the...
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Dialect continuum (category Comparative linguistics)
[Serbo-Croatian Between Linguistics and Politics: With a Bibliography of the Post-Yugoslav Language Dispute]. Lincom Studies in Slavic Linguistics; vol 34 (in German)...
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Vowel breaking (redirect from Breaking (linguistics))
In historical linguistics, vowel breaking, vowel fracture, or diphthongization is the sound change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong. Vowel...
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Alsatian (Alsatian: Elsässisch or Elsässerditsch "Alsatian German"; Lorraine Franconian: Elsässerdeitsch; French: Alsacien; ‹See Tfd›German: Elsässisch or Elsässerdeutsch)...
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Germanic dialects, which includes both Central German dialects and Low Franconian, the ancestor of Dutch. The term was introduced by the German linguist...
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Hypercorrection (redirect from Overcompensation (linguistics))
language varieties are in contact. Studies in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics have noted the overapplication of rules of phonology, syntax, or morphology...
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Germanic Tone Accents: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Franconian Tone Accents, Leiden, 13-14 June 2003 (= Zeitschrift für Dialektologie...
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Afrikaans (category Low Franconian languages)
Franconian Dutch Afrikaans Afrikaans descended from Dutch dialects in the 17th century. It belongs to a West Germanic sub-group, the Low Franconian languages...
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Germanic languages (redirect from Germanic (linguistics))
North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany. Luxembourgish is a Moselle Franconian dialect that is spoken mainly in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, where...
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Swabians is a West Central German dialect which is part of the Moselle-Franconian family and thereby shares several linguistic similarities with another...
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