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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Old Frankish,Fränkisch
 
 
<b>Description:</b>
 
Old Frankish was the language of the Franks and it is classified as a West Germanic language. Once it was spoken in areas covering modern Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and adjacent parts of France and Germany.
The Franks are descended from Germanic tribes from the Nordic countries that settled parts of the Netherlands and western Germany during the early Iron Age. From the 4th century they are attested as moving from the Roman Empire into what is now the southern Netherlands and northern Belgium. In the 5th and 6th century they expanded their realm and dominated Roman Gaul completely as well as client states such as Bavaria and Thuringen.
Old Frankish has introduced the modern French word for the nation, France (Francia), to mean "land of the Franks". By the year 900 Frankish had evolved into Old Low Franconian (including Old Dutch) in the area that was originally held by Franks of the 4th century, while in Valois and Île-de-France (Paris) it was replaced by Old French as the dominating language.
Old Frankish has also left many etymons in the Walloon language, even more than in French, and not always the same ones. 
The language of the Franks managed to survive as Old Low<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=1210359 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Frankish Language Speakers</h2>
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53.000000, 9.000000, Europe
51.000000, 9.000000, Germany</googlemap>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
 
<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/germany Germany]</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>
 
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/europe Europe]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>frk</td></tr>
 
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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Indo-European Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Germanic Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[West Germanic Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[High German Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[German Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Frankish Language]]</b>
 
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