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Old High German
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earliest stage of the German language, spoken from 500/750 to 1050 AD
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Within Vinony's link graph, Old High German is referenced by 1,367 other articles, and connects out to Proto-Germanic, Rhine Franconian and Old English.
Vinony files it under German-language dialects, Language articles with unreferenced extinction date and Languages attested from the 8th century.
Its subject is documented across 47 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Region
- Central Europe
- Era
- Early Middle Ages ( c. AD 500–1050 )
- Language family
- Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Old High German
- Early form
- Proto-West Germanic
- Writing system
- Runic , Latin
- Iso 639 2
- goh
- Iso 639 3
- goh
- Glottolog
- oldh1241
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Erste Seite des Abrogans (Codex Sangallensis 911).jpg
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- Commons category
- Old High German
- native label
- Althochdeutsch
- Wikimedia language code
- goh
- P10369
- sport
- P13311
- Hochsauerlandkreis
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Old High German (OHG; German: Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050. Rather than representing a single supra-regional form of German, Old High German encompasses the numerous West Germanic dialects that had undergone the set of consonantal changes called the Second Sound Shift.
At the start of this period, dialect areas reflected the territories of largely independent tribal kingdoms, but by 788 the conquests of Charlemagne had brought all OHG dialect areas into a single polity. The period also saw the development of a stable linguistic border between German and Gallo-Romance, later French.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Old High German” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.