Old Saxon
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Old Saxon is an early West Germanic language spoken by the Saxons in what is now northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands, best known from texts like the biblical poem Heliand and as an ancestor of Low German.
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
West Germanic language
ⓘ
historical language ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Altsächsisch
ⓘ
Altsächsisch ⓘ Low German ⓘ
surface form:
Old Low German
|
| ancestralLanguageOf |
Low German
ⓘ
Middle Low German ⓘ Old Dutch ⓘ |
| attestedFrom | 8th century ⓘ |
| attestedUntil | 12th century ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Old Dutch
ⓘ
Old English ⓘ Old Frisian ⓘ |
| developedInto |
Middle Dutch
ⓘ
Middle Low German ⓘ |
| era | early Middle Ages ⓘ |
| glottologCode | olds1250 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
ablaut in verb morphology
ⓘ
alliterative verse tradition ⓘ four-case nominal system ⓘ grammatical gender ⓘ strong and weak verb distinction ⓘ |
| hasText |
Heliand
ⓘ
Heliand fragments ⓘ Heliand ⓘ
surface form:
Old Saxon Genesis
Old Saxon baptismal vow ⓘ Old Saxon confessional formula ⓘ |
| influenced |
Middle Low German orthography
ⓘ
Old English studies ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | osx ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Germanic languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
|
| languageSubbranch | West Germanic languages ⓘ |
| notAffectedBy | High German consonant shift ⓘ |
| primaryGenre |
biblical poetry
ⓘ
religious prose ⓘ |
| region |
Lower Saxony
ⓘ
Schleswig-Holstein ⓘ Westphalia ⓘ eastern Netherlands ⓘ |
| sharesIsogloss | Ingvaeonic languages ⓘ |
| sharesSoundChange | Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Saxons ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Northern Germany
ⓘ
parts of the Netherlands ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Germanic language
ⓘ
Indo-European language ⓘ |
| writingMaterial | manuscripts ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script ⓘ |
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.