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Franconian

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Franconia +‎ -an

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Franconian (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to Franconia (region in Bavaria) or its inhabitants.
  2. 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 [...]

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Franconian (plural Franconians)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Franconia.

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Franconian

 
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  1. (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.
    Dutch and Kölsch are forms of Franconian.
    • 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 [...].
      [...]
      In many other respects, however, tonal Franconian does not fit with what is known about tone languages.
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