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Encyclopedia > Low Franconian
Language classification
Indo-European languages
Germanic languages
West Germanic languages
Low German languages
Low Franconian language

Low Franconian is any of several West Germanic languages spoken in the Netherlands, northern Belgium, and South Africa. In the past Low-Franconian dialects were also spoken in the German area along the Rhine between Cologne and the German borders. During the 19th and 20th centuries these dialects have gradually been replaced by the today's Standard German. Together with Low Saxon and East Low German, these form the Low Germanic family of languages.


The modern Low Franconian languages are:

See also: Franconian language


External link

  • Ethnologue report for Low Franconian (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=769)

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Low Franconian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (173 words)
Low Franconian is any of several West Germanic languages spoken in The Netherlands, northern Belgium, and South Africa.
In Germany it is common to consider the Limburgian dialects as Low Franconian; in The Netherlands and Belgium however they are seen as Central or High German.
This difference is caused by a difference in definition: the linguists of the Low Countries define a Low German dialect as one that has only taken part in the fourth phase of the High German consonant shift.
Encyclopedia4U - Low German language - Encyclopedia Article (340 words)
Low German (in Low German, Nedderdüütsch) is any of a variety of West Germanic languages spoken in northern Germany and the Netherlands.
The term "Low German" is often restricted to Low Saxon, one of its two main branches, or extended to all of West Germanic except for High German.
Low German is distinguished from High German principally in that the latter underwent a consonant shift in the 700s and 800s.
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