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	German Language - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The chief characteristic of the division is to be sought in the ending of the first and third person plural of the present indicative of verbs, this being in the former case -en, in the latter -et.
		The Alemannic dialect which, roughly speaking, is separated from Bavarian by the Lech and borders on Italian territory in the south and on French in the west, is subdivided into: (a) Swabian, the dialect of the kingdom of Wurttemberg and the north-western part of Tirol (cf.
		The High Franconian dialects, that is to say, east and south (or south-Rhenish) Franconian, which are separated broadly speaking by the river Neckar, comprise the language spoken in a part of Baden, the dialects of the Main valley from Wiirzburg upwards to Bamberg, the dialect of Nuremberg and probably of the Vogtland (Plauen) and Egerland.
	49.1911encyclopedia.org /German_Language (6804 words)

	West Flemish
		West Flemish (in West Flemish, Vlaemsch) is a Low Franconian dialect spoken in parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
		It is sometimes called Flemish (in West Flemish, Vlaams), but that term is more often used simply for those dialects of Dutch that are spoken in Belgium.
		West Flemish is spoken by around 1.05 million people in West Flanders (in Belgium), 220,000 in the neighbouring Dutch coastal district of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, and 20,000 in the northern part of the French département of Nord.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/we/West_Flemish.html (92 words)

	Germanic Languages
		From there the West and East Goths migrated to southern Gaul, Iberia, and Italy in the fifth and sixth centuries C. The Gepids were overcome by the Lombards and Avars in the fifth century and disappeared.
		The West Germanic branch of the Germanic languages is spoken by the Germanic speaking people who occupied the southwestern part of the Germanic homeland.
		West Norse is the western branch of the North Germanic languages used in Iceland, Ireland, Norway, the Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland, and the Faroe Islands.
	softrat.home.mindspring.com /germanic.html (3010 words)

	Dutch language - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The West Germanic dialects can be divided according to tribe (Frisian, Saxon, Franconian, Bavarian and Swabian), and according to the extent of their participation in the High German consonant shift (Low German against High German).
		An oddity of West Flemish (and to a lesser extent, East Flemish) is that the pronunciation of the "soft g" sound (the voiced velar fricative) is almost identical to that of the "h" sound (the voiced glottal fricative), thus, the words held (hero) and geld (money) sound nearly the same.
		Zealandic of most of Zeeland is a transitional regional language between West Flemish and Hollandic, with the exception of the eastern part of Zealandic Flanders where East Flemish is spoken.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/d/u/t/Dutch_language.html (4255 words)

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		THE FRANCONIAN CONFEDERATION The Franconian Confederation (referred to hereafter as "Franconia") is a collection of seven principalities lying to the west of Steinhall.
		West of Franconia is the kingdom of Alfheim, a large Elvish kingdom.
		Why Aldaran chose to join itself with the mostly-human Franconian Confederacy instead of Alfheim is not well-understood by this scholar, and to figure it out would involve more delving into the history and religion of the Western Elves than this scholar is willing to commit herself to at present.
	linuxmafia.com /~pam/MJ-project/DnD/franconia.txt (860 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		East Low Franconian was eventually absorbed by Dutch as it became the dominant form of Low Franconian, although it remains a noticeable subtrate within the southern Limburgish dialects of Dutch.
		West Flemish is also spoken in part of the Dutch province of Zeeland, and even in a small area near Dunkirk, France that borders Belgium.
		Indeed the Low Franconian dialects and languages are morphologically closer to the original form of Western Germanic than the High German from which standard German is derived.
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	German Genealogy: Dialects
		Mosel Franconian is spoken in the region of the old Electorate of Trier.
		The southern linguistic boundary to East Franconian is formed by the ridge of the Thuringian forest.
		West Erzgebirgish lies in front of the Hither Erzgebirgish (with strong features of slang) in the north in the region, while in the west it borders on the Vogtlandish.
	www.genealogienetz.de /misc/dialect-e.html (1405 words)

	Reginheim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The treaty of Verdun in 843 separated Belgium into two parts; the area west of the river Schelde became a part of west Franconia and the rest was given to the Middle empire of Lotharius.
		In 925 Belgium became a part of the German empire and in the 12th century the country fell apart into small counties, in 1302 Belgium was invaded by France but Flemish farmers managed to defeat the French knights in the battle of the golden spurs (Guldensporenslag), which took place on July 11, 1302.
		When the Roman empire collapsed Gaul was invaded by the Salian Franconians from the 3rd to the 5th century AD, during the Great Migrations the Franconians expanded their empire in Gaul while the southern part was settled by the Visigoths and the east by the Burgundians.
	www.geocities.com /reginheim/countries.html (1939 words)

	West Central German - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		West Central German (Westmitteldeutsch) belongs to the Central, High German dialect family in the German language.
		This transition area between Central German and Upper German is captured by the dialect families of South Franconian German and East Franconian German, colloquially miscalled Franconian, because dialects of this sub-family are spoken all over Franconia.
		West Central German also is spoken in America, for example as Amana-Deutsch.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Franconian (172 words)

	Geographic Location
		In the west, the city almost continuously runs into the neighbouring municipalities of Fürth and Zirndorf, in the south west into the towns of Stein and Oberasbach.
		Nuremberg's surroundings are characterized by attractive landscapes: in the east, the Franconian Mountains (Fränkische Alb), in the north the Franconian Jura (Fränkische Schweiz), and in the south west the Franconian Lake District.
		The city is mainly built on sandstone, and this determines its vegetation and agriculture.
	www.nuernberg.de /internet/portal_e/buerger/geographic_location.html (196 words)

	Viking Chiefs in Vestern Europe
		At the coast the empire of Karl den Skaldede (Carl the Bald-headed) reached almost all the way to the Rhine, and he immediately allied himself with the viking chief Rurik who for a long time had secured a really good foothold in Dorestad and Friesland and who possibly was the nephew of Harald Klak.
		The political games between the Franconian empires, Denmark and the viking chiefs along the coast were far from distinct.
		Towards the end of the century when the expeditions towards the west began again, there were a couple of plunders in the familiar and lucrative viking objective Friesland, but otherwise it was Britain that suffered.
	www.vikingworld.dk /jellinge47.htm (1070 words)

	Dutch language information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The present Dutch standard language is largely based on Low Franconian dialects spoken in the Low Countries deriving from Old Frankish, the language of the Franks.
		Limburgish is Low Franconian, as is Dutch, but is so much more distant (it has been influenced by the Rhinelandic dialects like the Cologne dialect: Kölsch Platt, and has had a very different development since the late Middle Ages) that it is less and less classified as being Dutch.
		The Pennsylvania Dutch language itself is closely related to High German especially its Franconian dialects spoken in the southwest of Germany.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Dutch_language (5886 words)

	Moselle
		After the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, almost all of the Moselle département, along with Alsace and portions of the Meurthe and Vosges départements, were annexed to the German Empire by the Treaty of Frankfurt on the ground that the population in those areas spoke German dialects.
		Only one-fifth of Moselle (arrondissement of Briey in the extreme west of the département) was spared annexation by Bismarck, as it was a French-speaking area.
		Bismarck later bitterly regretted his decision when it was discovered that the region of Briey and Longwy was rich with iron ore. The Moselle département ceased to exist on May 18, 1871, and the territories annexed to Germany became part of the Reichsland of Elsaß-Lothringen.
	pedia.counsellingresource.com /openpedia/Moselle (1237 words)

	allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Border Seeks De-Listing (Page 1 of 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		But Border, 51 percent owned by Radar Holdings with a further 25 percent held by Franconian Zimbabwe Investments, wishes to purchase the remainder of this combined stake, and possibly transfer it into the hands of Franconian Zimbabwe.
		Sources at the AGM said Franconian Zimbabwe had shown interest to privatise operations through buying out smaller shareholders, understandably as a way of recapitalising the group that, of late, has been hit badly by suspicious fires.
		Franconian Zimbabwe, also a key shareholder in Radar, had looked at buying out minority interests in the firm before exiting the equities market last year.
	allafrica.com /stories/200612270454.html (452 words)

	Fontcraft's Scriptorium Fonts and Graphic Arts
		Our Wild West font collection features 14 fonts based on designs from the classic days of the American West (1870-1890).
		They are typical of the type and lettering styles used in signs, circulars, posters and newspapers during that era.
		It's a great example of the style we often associate with signmaking in the old west, with a lot of quirks and original character.
	www.fontcraft.com /scriptorium/western.html (210 words)

	Dutch Information Center - von dutch
		An early Dutch recorded writing is: "Hebban olla vogala nestas hagunnan, hinase hic enda tu, wat unbidan we nu" ("All birds have started making nests, except me and you, what are we waiting for"), dating dutch girl around the year 1100, written by a Flemish monk in a convent in Rochester, England.
		It should dutch warmblood also be noted that the dialect borders of these dialects do not correspond to present geopolitical boundaries.
		Like all other continental West Germanic languages, Dutch has a dutch rabbits word order that is markedly different from English, von dutch hats which presents a problem for some Anglophones learning Dutch.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_D_-_G/Dutch.html (4344 words)

	The English word for "Germany" \| Antimoon Forum
		I think the english and the german word for Germany is better than Allemagne/Alemania or Saksa (is it Finnish?) because it reflects this nation as a whole, including all the major germanic tribes that took part in founding it.
		You seem to ignore clearly extant cases of a dialect continuum existing between Low Franconian dialects and other non-Anglo-Frisian dialects such as Limburgish, which is a smooth continuum between Low Franconian and West Middle German if anything.
		Also remember that even with the position of West Flemish being separate from Dutch, West Flemish would probably still be the closest language to Dutch other than Afrikaans (which is a special case in this context), with Low Saxon being next closest after West Flemish.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/t3831-45.htm (1164 words)

	The Origins of Old English
		According to Tacitus the West Germanic people were divided into three major tribal groups: Ingvaeones, Istvaeones, Erminones.
		Old English is largely known through the work of tenth and eleventh century scribes, working in the South and West of the country.
		These scribes would be unlikely to use loanwords that were in use in the Scandinavian settlement area, thus of the 900 attested North Germanic loans into English, only 150 appear in Old English sources.
	lonestar.texas.net /~jebbo/learn-as/origins.htm (1023 words)

	The German language
		It affords an overview of the three large dialect bands spanning German-speaking Central Europe with each, in turn, showing sub- groups of dialects.
		The Low German band of this map shows less differentiation than the Middle and Upper bands, but Mecklenburg, West- and East Pomerania, Brandenburg and East Prussia certainly also have dialect variants of their own.
		On the contrary, Russian was carried east much later, just as American English was carried west.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Language/language_germanlang101302.html (1084 words)

	Ethnologue: Germany
		There is ethnic pride, efforts to revive Frisian literature and bilingual education.
		Not intelligible to any except a few educated speakers of West Frisian.
		They have to converse with those on the mainland in the Low Saxon dialect of German.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Germ.html (1115 words)

	Old Frankish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		And although speakers of these dialects could all pretty much understand each other, in some of the Frankish dialects, people started pronouncing b’s like p’s, g’s like k’s, and in general, participating in the High German Consonant Shift.
		Since this particular shift is what modern linguists use to distinguish the High German language from the Low Franconian (and Saxon) languages, we have the interesting factoid that some of the Franks spoke
		The dialect in the east, probably what Charlemagne would have spoken, is the only dialect that we have anything written in (at least not until the "Middle" stage of its history); this dialect is called—you guessed it!—Old East Low Franconian.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/778538 (737 words)

	Wikinfo \| Alsace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Historically, the region has passed between French and German control numerous times, resulting in a rich cultural blend.
		The local Germanic dialects are Allemanic (which covers Alsace, Baden and Switzerland) and Frankish, a West Franconian dialect spoken in Lorraine, Luxemburg and the Rhineland).
		Both are referred to as Alsacien in French, and neither have any form of official See: Alsatian language.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Alsace (753 words)

	Hotels in Nuernberg Germany - Sued-West Park
		The Sued - West Park Hotel is located in Nurnberg - Gebersdorf, a very quiet suburb of the beautiful city of Nuremberg, in the Sud West Park.
		This is one of Germanys best Business-Parks (priced as "Greenest Business Park"), which is fully equipped with Bank, Supermarket, Restaurant.
		In our Restaurant L' Orchidee you can enjoy healthy food from Franconian area or from around the world.
	www.onetravelsource.com /11299940.html (213 words)

	Luxembourg Books in the Library of Congress (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		Linguists classify it as a West Middle German dialect called “Moselle Franconian.” It developed in the region of Trier and Koblenz, originating with the Salian Franks (North Sea Franks) and the Ripuarian Franks (Rhenish Franks), who settled in this region beginning in the third century AD.
		Subsequently, Luxembourgish evolved further as a result of a linguistic symbiosis between these West Franks and the Romans living in northern Gaul after the Frankish conquest.
		Given its rich history, Luxembourgish merits as much recognition and respect as other European languages.
	www.loc.gov /rr/european/luxbro/luxbroch2.html (366 words)

	Old High German (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Even though many of these dialects have the word "Franconian" in their names, they are classified as dialects of
		The Lord's Prayer, in the Rhenish Franconian dialect of
		(This seems to me to be in either one of the "Middle" dialects or in East Franconian, since past participle forms have the prefix ge-, like modern German, instead of ke-/ki-, which Old Bavarian and Old Alemannic tended to have.)
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/777756 (503 words)

	TIME.com: The Shaky State of NATO -- Aug. 10, 1981 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the rolling Franconian countryside, near the point where West Germany, East Germany and Czechoslovakia meet, a U.S. Army helicopter is giving a brisk guided tour of the frontier.
		The helicopter cruises parallel to the ugly belt of East German barbed wire and minefields, staying about 100 yds.
		This sentiment, combined with economic strains within the alliance (all too evident at the Ottawa summit in late July), long-building political tensions, and the palpable growth of Soviet power, has brought the West once again to deep doubt about the future of NATO.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,954923,00.html (665 words)

	Nuremberg Travel Guide
		Nuremberg (Nurnberg) is a city located on the Pegnitz River about 90 miles northwest of Munich in Southern Germany.
		Nuremberg is surrounded by attractive landscapes: to the East the Franconian hills, to the North "Franconian Switzerland" and to the South-West the Franconian Lakes.
		Germany is located in Central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark.
	www.worldroom.com /pages/cg_nuremberg/nuremberg_main.phtml (107 words)

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