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Frankish

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Also 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
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Glottolog
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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.

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