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.
Aliases (1)
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
West Germanic language
→
early medieval language → historical language stage → |
| endTime |
12th century
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|
| era |
Early Middle Ages
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|
| followedBy |
Middle Dutch
→
|
| follows |
Proto-Germanic
→
Proto-West-Germanic → |
| hasAncestor |
Old Frankish
→
Old Saxon → |
| hasCorpusSize |
small corpus
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|
| 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
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|
| languageFamily |
Germanic languages
→
Indo-European languages → West Germanic languages → |
| partOf |
history of the Dutch language
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|
| regionOfUse |
Brabant
→
Flanders → Frisia → Rhine–Meuse delta → |
| spokenIn |
Frankish Empire
→
Low Countries → modern Belgium → modern Netherlands → parts of northern France → |
| startTime |
6th century
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|
| studiedInDiscipline |
Dutch philology
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Germanic philology → historical linguistics → |
| subclassOf |
Dutch language
→
|
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
→
runic script → |
Referenced by (11)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Old Frankish
→
Proto-West Germanic → |
ancestorOf |
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Leiden Willeram
→
Wachtendonck Psalms → |
language |
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Old Saxon
→
|
ancestralLanguageOf |
|
Old Frankish
→
|
developedInto |
|
Middle Dutch
→
|
follows |
|
Low Franconian languages
("Old Dutch language")
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|
hasAncestor |
|
Walcheren dialect
→
|
hasLanguageAncestor |
|
Dutch
→
|
historicalStage |
|
West Germanic languages
→
|
includesLanguage |