Old East Low Franconian

Noun

Old East Low Franconian

1. (strict-sense) The variety of Old Low Franconian that was spoken in Limburg and the Rhineland
   • Old Low Franconian has come down to us in an eastern and a western variety. The most important surviving text in Old East Low Franconian is a translation of Latin psalms, the so-called Wachtendonckse psalmen, written in the tenth century by a monk who lived in the region between Venlo and Krefeld.2013, Ann Marynissen, Guy Janssens, A regional history of Dutch, in: Frans Hinskens, Johan Taeldeman (eds.), Language and Space: An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation: Volume 3: Dutch (=...
   • The surviving texts are dated mainly to the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries and are usually divided into two major dialects: Old West Low Franconian, spoken in Flanders, Brabant, and Holland, and Old East Low Franconian, spoken in Limburg and the Rhineland.2015, Oliver M. Traxel, Languages, in: Albrecht Classen (ed.), Handbook of Medieval Culture: Fundamental Aspects and Conditions of the European Middle Ages: Volume 2, here p. 810
2. (broadly) Old Low Franconian (as distinguished from Old West Low Franconian or Westfränkisch)
   • In the Netherlands, Low Franconian was spoken along with Frisian and Saxon. A division can be made between Old East and Old West Low Franconian (of which almost nothing is left).2011, Robert S.P. Beekes, revised and corrected by Michiel de Vaan, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction, 2nd ed., p. 29
   • If we went to Liège around the year 750, we would hear Old East Low Franconian in the city, north and northwest; Old Ripuarian Franconian to the east and in Aachen; …2011, Dominique T. Hoche, Charlemagne, in: Lister M. Matheson (ed.), Icons of the Middle Ages: Rulers, Writers, Rebels, and Saints, here p. 146