Low Franconian languages

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Language classification

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Indo-European languages

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Germanic languages

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West Germanic languages

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Low German languages

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Low Franconian language

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Low Franconian is any of several West Germanic languages spoken in The Netherlands, northern Belgium, and South Africa.

Related Topics:
West Germanic - Language - Netherlands - Belgium - South Africa

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Low-Franconian dialects are also spoken in the German area along the Rhine between Cologne and the border between Germany and The Netherlands. During the 19th and 20th centuries these dialects have partly and gradually been replaced by the today's Standard German. Together with Low Saxon and East Low German, these form the Low Germanic family of languages.

Related Topics:
Rhine - Low Saxon - East Low German - Low Germanic

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In Germany it is common to consider the Limburgian dialects as Low Franconian; in The Netherlands and Belgium however they are seen as Central or High German. This difference is caused by a difference in definition: the linguists of the Low Countries define a Low German dialect as one that has only taken part in the fourth phase of the High German consonant shift.

Related Topics:
Limburgian - Central - High German - High German consonant shift

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The modern Low Franconian languages are:

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• Hollandic
• Afrikaans
• East Flemish
• Brabantian
• Limburgish
• West Flemish
• Zuid-Gelders

See also: Franconian German

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