Netherlands, northern Belgium, northern France, western Germany, Suriname, Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, Namibia and South Africa
Linguistic classification
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
Weser–Rhine Germanic / Istvaeonic
Low Franconian
Early form
Frankish
Subdivisions
Dutch (including Afrikaans, Kaaps, and Surinaams)
Limburgish
Glottolog
wese1235(Macro-Dutch) macr1270
Distribution of Low Franconian, including the Low Franconian–Ripuarian transition area in Limburg and West Germany.
In historical and comparative linguistics, Low Franconian is a linguistic category used to classify a number of historical and contemporary West Germanic varieties closely related to, and including, the Dutch language. Most dialects and languages included within this category are spoken in the Netherlands, northern Belgium (Flanders), in the Nord department of France, in western Germany (Lower Rhine), as well as in Suriname, South Africa and Namibia.
In historical and comparative linguistics, LowFranconian is a linguistic category used to classify a number of historical and contemporary West Germanic...
Oudnederlands) or Old LowFranconian (Dutch: Oudnederfrankisch) is the set of dialects that evolved from Frankish spoken in the Low Countries during the...
comprise the Low German and LowFranconian dialects. As members of the West Germanic language family, High German, Low German, and LowFranconian have been...
Frankish (reconstructed endonym: *Frenkisk), also known as Old Franconian or Old Frankish, was the West Germanic language spoken by the Franks from the...
Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten and Suriname. It is a West Germanic, LowFranconian language that originated in the Early Middle Ages (c. 470) and was standardised...
Upper German High Franconian East Franconian German South Franconian German Alemannic German Swabian German, including Stuttgart Low Alemannic German,...
Central Franconian dialects are part of a continuum stretching from the LowFranconian language area in the northwest to the Rhine Franconian dialects...
derived names of Francia and Franconia (and the adjectives Frankish and Franconian), are derived from the name given to a Germanic tribal confederation which...
by the High German consonant shift, separating it from Low German (Low Saxon) and LowFranconian (including Dutch) within the continental West Germanic...
within the Franconian cluster, which is divided into LowFranconian, Middle Franconian and Upper Franconian even though the LowFranconian (i.e. Dutch)...
Franconian dialect family and also to the linguistic continuum with the LowFranconian languages. It is spoken in the Rhineland south of the Benrath line —...
it blends into the LowFranconian languages, including Dutch. A distinguishing feature between the LowFranconian varieties and Low German varieties is...
from Old East LowFranconian, which had evolved itself from earlier Weser–Rhine Germanic, a language which had been spoken in the Low Countries on both...
Central Dutch dialects. Other important language varieties of spoken LowFranconian languages are Brabantian, Flemish (East Flemish, West Flemish), Zeelandic...
West Germanic LowFranconian Dutch Afrikaans, Dutch-based creoles Dutch belongs to its own West Germanic sub-group, the LowFranconian languages, paired...
Kleverlandish (Dutch: Kleverlands; German: Kleverländisch) is a group of LowFranconian dialects spoken on both sides of the Dutch-German border along the Meuse...
West Central German (notably Luxembourgish, Colognian and Hessian), High Franconian and Alemannic; and excludes all dialects of the Eastern group, such as...
Franks that stayed in the Low Countries had kept their original language, i.e., Old Dutch, also known as "Old LowFranconian" among linguists. At the time...
[ˈfʁaŋkŋ̍] ; East Franconian: Franggn [ˈfrɑŋɡŋ̍]; Bavarian: Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and East Franconian dialect (German:...
Look up Old Frankish or Old LowFranconian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Old Franconian may mean: Old Frankish language, the Frankish language,...
linguistic transition region separated from Northern Germany (Low German/LowFranconian) by the Benrath line isogloss and separated from Southern Germany...
Germanic LowFranconian Dutch Afrikaans Afrikaans descended from Dutch dialects in the 17th century. It belongs to a West Germanic sub-group, the Low Franconian...
West Germanic is divided into Anglo-Frisian (including English), Low German, LowFranconian (including Dutch) and High German (including Standard German)...
Dutch Low Saxon (Nederlaands Leegsaksies [ˈneːdərlaːnts ˈleːxsɑksis] or Nederlaands Nedersaksies; Dutch: Nederlands Nedersaksisch) are the Low Saxon dialects...
Flemish (Vlaams) is a LowFranconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (Vlaams-Nederlands), Belgian Dutch...