Old Frankish

E67152

West Germanic language extinct language historical language

Old Frankish was the early West Germanic language of the Franks, spoken in parts of what are now France, Belgium, and western Germany, and is a key ancestor of several modern Germanic languages.

Aliases (5)

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	West Germanic language → extinct language → historical language →
ancestorOf	Dutch → Limburgish → Low Franconian dialects → Middle Dutch → Old Dutch → Old Low Franconian →
associatedWithDynasty	Carolingian dynasty → Merovingian dynasty →
closelyRelatedTo	Old English → Old High German → Old Saxon →
developedInto	Dutch → Low Franconian dialect continuum → Middle Dutch → Old Dutch →
extinctionPeriod	by around the 10th century →
hasAlternativeName	Frankish → Old Franconian →
influenced	French anthroponymy → French toponymy → French vocabulary → Gallo-Romance languages → Old French →
ISOStatus	no ISO 639-3 code →
languageFamily	West Germanic →
lexifierOf	Frankish loanwords in French →
partOfBranch	Low Franconian →
phonologicalFeature	preservation of Germanic consonant system without High German consonant shift →
reconstructedFrom	early Dutch texts → loanwords in Old French → names in Latin sources →
region	Lower Rhine region → Northern Gaul →
spokenIn	Frankish Empire → parts of modern Belgium → parts of modern France → parts of modern western Germany →
status	extinct →
subclassOf	Germanic language → Indo-European language →
timePeriod	c. 5th century to c. 9th century → early Middle Ages →
usedBy	Franks →
writingSystem	Latin alphabet → runic script →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Old Frankish ("Frankish") → Old Frankish ("Old Franconian") →	hasAlternativeName
Low Franconian languages ("Old Frankish language") → Old Dutch →	hasAncestor
Gallo-Romance languages ("Frankish language") →	influencedBy
Wachtendonck Psalms ("Old Low Franconian") →	language
Christianization of the Franks →	languageContext
Franks ("Frankish language") →	spoke