Frankish language

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The Frankish language can refer to:

• Old Frankish, the language spoken by the Franks, a Germanic people active in the Roman era

• The Low Franconian languages, the linguistic subgroup containing modern variants of the Old Frankish language: Dutch and Afrikaans.
• any Franconian German variety

• a West Franconian dialect of modern German spoken in Alsace and Lorraine (Lorraine Franconian), regions in France

In the second sense, Frankish (German, Fränkisch) is heavily influenced by French, since it is spoken mainly in France. Though not readily intelligible to speakers of standard German, it is closely related to other nearby Franconian dialects, such as Palatinate German, and Luxembourgish.

Frankish, called platt in France is often confused with the Alsatian language, an unrelated Alemannic German dialect.

 

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