Old Dutch

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Old Dutch is the earliest recorded stage of the Dutch language, spoken in the Low Countries roughly between the 6th and 12th centuries and known from a small corpus of early medieval texts and inscriptions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf West Germanic language
early medieval language
historical language stage
endTime 12th century
era Early Middle Ages
followedBy Middle Dutch
follows Proto-Germanic
Proto-West-Germanic
hasAncestor Old Frankish
Old Saxon
hasCorpusSize small corpus
hasDescendant Afrikaans
Brabantian dialects
Limburgish
Middle Dutch
Modern Dutch
West Flemish
Zeelandic
hasFeature V2 word order tendencies
case inflection on nouns
grammatical gender system
rich inflectional morphology
second Germanic consonant shift partially absent
strong and weak verb distinction
hasNotableText Hebban olla vogala poem
Leiden Willeram
Salic law glosses
Wachtendonck Psalms
hasTextType glosses
legal formulas
religious texts
short inscriptions
hasWritingSystem Carolingian minuscule
ISOStatus no modern ISO 639-3 code as separate language
languageFamily Germanic languages
Indo-European languages
West Germanic languages
partOf history of the Dutch language
regionOfUse Brabant
Flanders
Frisia
Rhine–Meuse delta
spokenIn Frankish Empire
Low Countries
modern Belgium
modern Netherlands
parts of northern France
startTime 6th century
studiedInDiscipline Dutch philology
Germanic philology
historical linguistics
subclassOf Dutch language
writingSystem Latin alphabet
runic script


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