Citations:Old Franconian


 * 1) a language or dialect (group) distinct from Old High German:
 * 2) * Theo Vennemann gen. Nierfeld, The development of reduplicating verbs in Germanic, in: 1997, Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr (eds.), Insights in Germanic Linguistics II: Classic and Contemporary (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 94), p. 297ff., here p. 303f. (in section ''2.2 Problem 4: The ē2 problem):
 * This problem consists of the fact that in the North and West Germanic languages (except Anglian), a new vowel phoneme originated in the preterits of some reduplicating verbs, a long close ē, the so-called ē2, which remained distinct from the inherited long ē, the so-called ē1, which lasted as such only in Gothic, Frisian, and Anglian but became ǣ in the other Old English dialects and ā in Old Franconian, Old Saxon, Old High German, and in the North Germanic languages.
 * 1) a dialect (group) which may overlap with Old High German:
 * 2) * 2018, Kurt Goblirsch, Gemination, Lenition, and Vowel Lengthening: On the History of Quantity in Germanic (series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 157), Cambridge University Press, p. 44:
 * Gemination in this position is common only in Old Alemannic and Old Bavarian manuscripts, rare in Old Franconian, Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old English.
 * 1) * Herbert Penzl, Methods of textual linguistics and the old high German Ludwigslied, in: 1978, Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Edgar C. Polomé, Werner Winter (eds.), Linguistic and literary studies: In honor of Archibald A. Hill: III: Historical and comparative linguistics, p. 163ff., here p. 163:
 * [...] one particular Old High German text. This text is the Ludwigslied, which is 59 lines long and was written in a special Old Franconian dialect in 881 or 882 after the battle of Saucourt; [...]
 * 1) a dialect (group) part of Old High German:
 * 2) * 2019, Javier Caro Reina, Central Catalan and Swabian: A study in the framework of the typology of syllable and word languages (series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, vol. 422, edited by Claudia Polzin-Haumann and Wolfgang Schweickard), p. 318:
 * Old Alemannic is a dialect of Old High German, which is traditionally divided into two main dialect groups: Old Upper German (Altoberdeutsch) and Old Franconian (Altfränkisch). Old Upper German comprises Old Alemannic (Altalemannisch) and Old Bavarian (Altbairisch) while Old Franconian consists of Old Mid Franconian (Altmittelfränkisch), Old Rhine Franconian (Altrheinfränkisch), Old South-Rhine Franconian (Altsüdrheinfränkisch), and Old East Franconian (Altostfränkisch).