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Encyclopedia > Old Franconian

Old Low Franconian is the language ancestral to the Low Franconian languages, including Dutch. It was spoken between the 7th and 11th centuries. The graphemes used for Old Low Franconian are Low Franconian is any of several West Germanic languages spoken in the Netherlands, northern Belgium, and South Africa. ... (6th century - 7th century - 8th century - other centuries) Events Islam starts in Arabia, the Quran is written, and Arabs subjugate Syria, Iraq, Persia, Egypt, North Africa and Central Asia to Islam. ... (10th century - 11th century - 12th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 11th century was that century which lasted from 1001 to 1100. ... A grapheme designates the atomic unit in written language. ...

a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, u, v, w.


See also: Franconian language. The Franconian language can refer to: the Main Franconian, a High German dialect spoken in Franconia (a region of Bavaria, though historically distinct) the West Middle German language family a number of West Germanic languages and dialects, including all of West Middle German and some Low German languages as well...


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GERMAN LANGUAGE - LoveToKnow Article on GERMAN LANGUAGE (7834 words)
The chief characteristic of the division is to be sought in the ending of the first and third person plural of the present indicative of verbs, this being in the former case -en, in the latter -et.
The High Franconian dialects, that is to say, east and south (or south-Rheriish) Franconian, which are separated broadly speaking by the river Neckar, comprise the language spoken in a part of Baden, the dialects of the Main valley from Wurzburg upwards to Bamberg, the dialect of Nuremberg and probably of the Vogtland (Plauen) and Egerland.
Again while in Old High German the older diphthongs ai and au were preserved as el and on, unless they happened to stand at the end of a word or were followed by certain consonants (h, w, r in the one case, and 11, n, 1, n, th, d, t, I, Sin the other; cf.
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