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 line, the Franks held their dialect, yet it was not influenced by the Second Sound Shift, which hence isolated their Low Franconian tongue (the precursor of Dutch) from the all the more easterly Franconian vernaculars which framed some portion of Old High German.
The Saxons and the Frisians along the shores of North Sea were in like manner not influenced by the Second Sound Shift and a heap of isoglosses in a comparable area to the cutting edge Benrath Line[3] denoted the Northern furthest reaches of the sound move and isolated the lingo of the Franks from Old Saxon.
In the south, the Langobards, who had settled in Northern Italy, kept up their vernacular until their victory by Charlemagne in 774. After this the Germanic-talking populace, who were by then more likely than not bilingual, step by step changed to the Romance dialect of the local populace (the progenitor of Italian), so that Langobardic had ceased to exist before the finish of the OHG period.[4]
Toward the start of the period, no Germanic dialect was talked east of a line from Kieler Förde to the streams Elbe and Saale, prior Germanic speakers in the Northern piece of the zone having been uprooted by the Slavs. This territory did not wind up noticeably German-talking again until the German eastbound development ("Ostkolonisation") of the mid twelfth century, however there was some endeavor at victory and evangelist work under the Ottonians.[5]
The Alemannic country was vanquished by Clovis I in 496, and the most recent a quarter century the eighth century Charlemagne stifled the Saxons, the Frisians, the Bavarians, and the Lombards, bringing all mainland Germanic-talking people groups under Frankish run the show. While this prompted some level of Frankish etymological impact, the dialect of both the organization and the Church was Latin, and this unification did not along these lines prompt any advancement of a supra-local assortment of Frankish nor an institutionalized Old High German; the individual tongues held their character.
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 line, the Franks held their dialect, yet it was not influenced by the Second Sound Shift, which hence isolated their Low Franconian tongue (the precursor of Dutch) from the all the more easterly Franconian vernaculars which framed some portion of Old High German.
The Saxons and the Frisians along the shores of North Sea were in like manner not influenced by the Second Sound Shift and a heap of isoglosses in a comparable area to the cutting edge Benrath Line[3] denoted the Northern furthest reaches of the sound move and isolated the lingo of the Franks from Old Saxon.
In the south, the Langobards, who had settled in Northern Italy, kept up their vernacular until their victory by Charlemagne in 774. After this the Germanic-talking populace, who were by then more likely than not bilingual, step by step changed to the Romance dialect of the local populace (the progenitor of Italian), so that Langobardic had ceased to exist before the finish of the OHG period.[4]
Toward the start of the period, no Germanic dialect was talked east of a line from Kieler Förde to the streams Elbe and Saale, prior Germanic speakers in the Northern piece of the zone having been uprooted by the Slavs. This territory did not wind up noticeably German-talking again until the German eastbound development ("Ostkolonisation") of the mid twelfth century, however there was some endeavor at victory and evangelist work under the Ottonians.[5]
The Alemannic country was vanquished by Clovis I in 496, and the most recent a quarter century the eighth century Charlemagne stifled the Saxons, the Frisians, the Bavarians, and the Lombards, bringing all mainland Germanic-talking people groups under Frankish run the show. While this prompted some level of Frankish etymological impact, the dialect of both the organization and the Church was Latin, and this unification did not along these lines prompt any advancement of a supra-local assortment of Frankish nor an institutionalized Old High German; the individual tongues held their character.
