In historical and comparative linguistics, Low Franconian is a linguistic category used to classify a number of historical and contemporary West Germanic...

extinct languages. Proto-West Germanic High German languages Old High German† & Middle High German† Upper German High Franconian East Franconian German...

Franconian or Frankish is a collective term traditionally used by linguists to refer to many West Germanic languages, some of which are spoken in what...

Franconian dialect family and also to the linguistic continuum with the Low Franconian languages. It is spoken in the Rhineland south of the Benrath line — from...

Oudnederlands) or Old Low Franconian (Dutch: Oudnederfrankisch) is the set of dialects that evolved from Frankish spoken in the Low Countries during the...

(reconstructed endonym: *Frenkisk), also known as Old Franconian or Old Frankish, was the West Germanic language spoken by the Franks from the 5th to 9th century...

regional languages according to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Low Saxon is spoken by 1,798,000 speakers. Another Low Franconian dialect...

Central Franconian dialects are part of a continuum stretching from the Low Franconian language area in the northwest to the Rhine Franconian dialects...

West Germanic sub-group, the Low Franconian languages, paired with its sister language Limburgish or East Low Franconian. Its closest relative is the mutually...

by the High German consonant shift, separating it from Low German (Low Saxon) and Low Franconian (including Dutch) within the continental West Germanic...