💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Old low franconian"
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| middle low franconiannoun | A language, successor to Old Low Franconian and ancestor to the modern Dutch language, spoken from about 1150 to about 1500. |
| old low germannoun | a grouping of continental West Germanic, not affected by the High German consonant shift, spoken before the 12th century; depending on the definition specifically |
| old dutchnoun | A branch of Old Low Franconian, with a Frisian substrate, spoken and written during the Middle Ages (c. 9th to 12th century) in the Netherlands and the northern part of present-day Belgium, as well as in areas of northern France along the North Sea coast and adjoining Belgium. This language represents the first attested stage of the Dutch language and its dialects, being succeeded by Middle Dutch in the later Middle Ages. |
| old east low franconiannoun | (broad sense) Old Low Franconian (as distinguished from Old West Low Franconian or Westfränkisch) |
| old frisiannoun | a West Germanic language spoken on parts of the North Sea coast of modern Netherlands and Germany until the 16th century |
| old saxonnoun | A west Germanic language historically tied to Anglo-Saxon and Old Low Franconian. |
| low germannoun | A West Germanic language spoken in Low (i.e. Northern) Germany and north-eastern parts of the Netherlands, and formerly also in large parts of eastern and north-eastern Europe, which developed out of Middle Low German from Old Saxon; often treated as a dialect group of German (or Dutch) for convenience, but widely recognized as a separate language. |
| low dutchnoun | (archaic) Low German. |
| old high dutchnoun | (obsolete) Old High German. |
| middle frisiannoun | (linguistics) The language descended from Old Frisian spoken on the North Sea coast of modern Netherlands and Germany from the 16th century until c. 1820. |
| west germanicnoun | (linguistics) The branch of the Germanic language family consisting of English, Frisian languages, Dutch, Afrikaans, Low Saxon languages, German, and Yiddish, and their immediate predecessors. |
| frisiannoun | A Germanic language group or language (see Usage notes), or a lect thereof, which descended from Old Frisian, with speakers in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. |
| middle dutchnoun | Collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects (whose ancestor was Old Dutch) which were spoken and written between 1150 and 1500 in the present-day Dutch-speaking area. There was at that time as yet no overarching standard language, but they were all mutually intelligible. |
| dutchnoun | Of or pertaining to the Netherlands, the Dutch people or the Dutch language. |
| dutchlandnoun | (dated) The region of Continental Europe populated by speakers of Low, Middle and High West Germanic languages, roughly corresponding to the Netherlands, Flanders, Germany, Austria, and parts of Switzerland. |
| south low franconiannoun | in, of or relating to South Low Franconian |
| middle low germannoun | A language or collection of dialects that descended from Old Saxon and is the ancestor of modern Low German, spoken from about 1100 to 1600. |
| low saxonnoun | A group of related dialects of Low German, spoken in northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands, formerly also in Denmark. |
| western frisiannoun | Synonym of West Frisian. |
| westphaliannoun | (politics) Of or pertaining to the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 which established a new system of political order in Central Europe, based on the concept of co-existing sovereign states. |
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