Old Low Franconian

Old Low Franconian

1. The West Germanic language that is the ancestor of modern Dutch and its varieties.
2. 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)
   • 2010 (originally 2004), Benjamin W. Fortson IV, Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, series: Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics, 2nd ed., p. 371:

     The particular variety of Old Low Franconian spoken in the cultural centers of Flanders and Brabant is called Old West Low Franconian and is the ancestor ultimately of Dutch.

• Old Low Frankish

(ancestor of Dutch):

• Old Dutch

(ancestor of Dutch, Limburgish etc.):

• Old West Low Franconian
• Old East Low Franconian