Low Franconian

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Low Franconian

  1. A group of continental West Germanic languages and dialects; spoken chiefly in the Netherlands, Flanders, and the Lower Rhine area of Germany.
    • 1974, M. O'C. Walshe, A Middle High German reader: with grammar, notes, and glossary, Oxford University Press, p. 3 (cp. p. 2):
      Low Franconian, adjoining Middle Franconian on the Lower Rhine, is historically a branch of LG , but today forms the main basis of Dutch, which developed as a separate national language.
    • 1983, C.A.M. Noble, Modern German Dialects, page 97:
      The only problematic area is the south west, where (cf. the beginning of this chapter) Low Franconian straddles the Benrath Line and the Urdingen Line, but is usually included in Low German, though, strictly speaking, only North Low Franconian has none of the sound shifts.

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