Meaning of Old East Low Franconian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The variety of Old Low Franconian that was spoken in Limburg and the Rhineland
   strict-sense
2. Old Low Franconian (as distinguished from Old West Low Franconian or Westfränkisch)
   broadly

Examples

“Old Low Franconian has come down to us in an eastern and a western variety. The most important surviving text in Old East Low Franconian is a translation of Latin psalms, the so-called Wachtendonckse psalmen, written in the tenth century by a monk who lived in the region between Venlo and Krefeld.”

“The surviving texts are dated mainly to the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries and are usually divided into two major dialects: Old West Low Franconian, spoken in Flanders, Brabant, and Holland, and Old East Low Franconian, spoken in Limburg and the Rhineland.”

“In the Netherlands, Low Franconian was spoken along with Frisian and Saxon. A division can be made between Old East and Old West Low Franconian (of which almost nothing is left).”

“If we went to Liège around the year 750, we would hear Old East Low Franconian in the city, north and northwest; Old Ripuarian Franconian to the east and in Aachen; …”

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