Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The Frankish dialects of the lower Rhine valley in the tenth and eleventh centuries that are ancestral to Dutch.
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- proper noun The
West Germanic language that is the ancestor of modernDutch and its varieties. - proper noun The above, including also the ancestors of the languages of the eastern Netherlands (
Limburgish ) and the Low Franconian varieties spoken in Germany. (In this view, the ancestor of Dutch is considered to be Old West Low Franconian)
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Certainly I'm never going to have the opportunity to speak to a Goth the old, dead kind, not the young I wish I were dead kind, or a native speaker of Old Low Franconian.
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