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Preferred term

frkFrankish  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • :Not to be confused with Old French. Old Frankish is an extinct West Germanic language, once spoken by the Franks. It is the parent language of all Low Franconian languages, of which Dutch is the best known. Frankish was spoken in areas covering modern Low Countries and adjacent parts of France and Germany between the 4th and 8th century AD.

Entry terms

  • Old Frankish

ISO 639-3 code

  • frk

Notation

  • frk

In other languages

  • Francique

    French

  • Altfränkisch

    German

  • Portuguese

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/frk

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