Franconian
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɹæŋˈkəʊ.ni.ən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fɹæŋˈkoʊ.ni.ən/
- Rhymes: -əʊniən
Adjective
[edit]Franconian (not comparable)
- Of or relating to Franconia (region in Bavaria) or its inhabitants.
- Of or relating to Franconian (dialects descending from Old Frankish, see proper noun below).
- 1886, H. A. Strong, Kuno Meyer, Outlines of a history of the German language, p. 68 ([1]):
- 107. THE LOW FRANCONIAN.—This was spoken on the lower Rhine. The oldest monument in it is the so-called Malberg (i.e. mahal-berg 'mount of justice') Gloss, i.e. Franconian vocables entered as glosses into the Salic Code of Law written in Latin.
- Yves Lejeune, The case of Belgium, in: 2010, European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages: Minority language protection in Europe: into a new decade: Regional or minority languages, No. 8, Council of Europe Publishing, p. 43ff., here p. 53:
- Franconian languages and dialects form a Germanic language group within western Middle German. Some linguists adopt a much broader approach and consider that Franconian also embraces dialects of Low German (Flemish, Brabantish, Limburgish, Dutch, Utrechtian, etc.) and High German (southern Rheno-Franconian and eastern Franconian).
- Björn Köhnlein, Marc van Oostendorp, Introduction, chapter 3 The place of Franconian tones in the debate; in: 2018, Wolfgang Kehrein, Björn Köhnlein, Paul Boersma, Marc van Oostendorp (eds.), Segmental Structure and Tone (series: LA: Linguistische Arbeiten), p. 1ff., here p. 5f.:
- The group of Franconian dialects (West Germanic, Indo-European) which is spoken in the east of Belgium, the south-east of the Netherlands and the neighbouring area in the west of Germany, has a particular interest for the debate [...]
- 1886, H. A. Strong, Kuno Meyer, Outlines of a history of the German language, p. 68 ([1]):
Translations
[edit]of or relating to Franconia or its inhabitants
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Noun
[edit]Franconian (plural Franconians)
- A native or inhabitant of Franconia.
Translations
[edit]native or inhabitant of to Franconia
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Proper noun
[edit]Franconian
- (linguistics) A marker for a number of West Germanic languages and dialects spoken in the former core of the Frankish empire: Low Countries (the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg), central-western Germany, and Franconia.
- Yves Lejeune, The case of Belgium, in: 2010, European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages: Minority language protection in Europe: into a new decade: Regional or minority languages, No. 8, Council of Europe Publishing, p. 43ff., here p. 53:
- Franconian languages and dialects form a Germanic language group within western Middle German. Some linguists adopt a much broader approach and consider that Franconian also embraces dialects of Low German (Flemish, Brabantish, Limburgish, Dutch, Utrechtian, etc.) and High German (southern Rheno-Franconian and eastern Franconian).
- Björn Köhnlein, Marc van Oostendorp, Introduction, chapter 3 The place of Franconian tones in the debate; in: 2018, Wolfgang Kehrein, Björn Köhnlein, Paul Boersma, Marc van Oostendorp (eds.), Segmental Structure and Tone (series: LA: Linguistische Arbeiten), p. 1ff., here p. 5f.:
- The group of Franconian dialects (West Germanic, Indo-European) which is spoken in the east of Belgium, the south-east of the Netherlands and the neighbouring area in the west of Germany, has a particular interest for the debate [...].
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In many other respects, however, tonal Franconian does not fit with what is known about tone languages.
- The group of Franconian dialects (West Germanic, Indo-European) which is spoken in the east of Belgium, the south-east of the Netherlands and the neighbouring area in the west of Germany, has a particular interest for the debate [...].
Related terms
[edit]- Old Franconian (usually called Old Frankish or simply Frankish)
- Low Franconian (Middle Low Franconian, Old Low Franconian, Old East Low Franconian)
- Middle Franconian or Central Franconian (including Moselle Franconian)
- Rhine Franconian or Rhenish Franconian
- East Franconian
- Upper Franconian
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