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Frankish
Sign in to saveAlso known as Old Frankish, Old Franconian, Old High Franconian, Frankish language, Old Frankish language, Old Franconian language, Old High Franconian language
West Germanic language spoken in 5th- to 9th-century Western Europe; ancestor of the Franconian languages
Key facts
- Native to
- Frankish Empire
- Region
- Western Europe
- Era
- c. 5th to 9th century , gradually evolved into Old Dutch , dissolved with other West Germanic varieties into Old High German , and influenced as superstrate Old French .
- Language family
- Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Frankish
- Writing system
- Elder Futhark (not widely used)
- Iso 639 3
- frk
- Glottolog
- fran1264
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Frankish (reconstructed Frankish: *Frankisk), also known as Old Franconian or Old Frankish, was the West Germanic language spoken by the Franks between the 4th and 8th century.
Between the 5th and 9th centuries, Frankish spoken by the Salian Franks in Belgium and the Netherlands evolved into Old Dutch (Old Low Franconian).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Frankish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.