Low Franconian

English

Proper noun

Low Franconian

1. A group of continental West Germanic languages and dialects; spoken chiefly in the Netherlands, Flanders, and the Lower Rhine area of Germany.
   • 1974, M. O'C. Walshe, A Middle High German reader: with grammar, notes, and glossary, Oxford University Press, p. 3 (cp. p. 2):

     Low Franconian, adjoining Middle Franconian on the Lower Rhine, is historically a branch of LG [= Low German], but today forms the main basis of Dutch, which developed as a separate national language.

Usage notes

• Note that Low Franconian is not spoken in the Bavarian region of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken), where, as in virtually all of Franconia, an Upper Franconian dialect is used. The linguistic term refers to the historic Franks, not the modern region.

Synonyms

• Low Frankish

Meronyms

• Dutch = Netherlandish, Netherlandic
  • Hollandic
  • Zeelandic, Zealandic
  • Brabantian, Brabantic, Brabantish
  • Flemish
• Limburgan, Limburgian, Limburgic, Limburgish
• Kleverlandish (rare)

Derived terms

• Old Low Franconian
• Middle Low Franconian

Related terms

• West Low Franconian (adjective)

Translations

Translations

• Dutch: Nederfrankisch (nl) n
• German: Niederfränkisch (de) n (as adjective: niederfränkisch)