Territory
Amid the relocation time frame, the Elbe Germanic tribes settled in what moved toward becoming Alamannia, the Duchy of Bavaria and the Kingdom of Lombardy. In the meantime the Weser-Rhine tribes settled the zone between those two waterways before intersection the Rhine to overcome Northern Gaul, where under the Merovingians they made the Frankish kingdom, which in the end streched down to the Loire. Old High German contains the tongues of these gatherings which experienced the Second Sound Shift amid the sixth Century, specifically all of Elbe Germanic and a large portion of the Weser-Rhine Germanic lingos. The Franks in the western piece of Francia (Neustria and western Austrasia) step by step received the Gallo-Romance dialect by the start of the OHG period, with the semantic limit later balanced out roughly along the course of the Maas and Moselle in the east, and the northern limit likely somewhat assist south than the present limit amongst French and Flemish.[2] North of this lin...