Re: Conlang collaboration

Karapcik, Mike scripsit:

>         I just finished the book "Old English and Its Closest Relatives".
An excellent book.

> In that, the author has a separate section on "Old High Franconian".
> He makes many references to High Franconian, Middle Franconian, and
> Low Franconian, sometimes alongside references to High and Low
> German. He also refers to modern Dutch as having Franconian elements
> mixed in with western Low German.
Basically, Middle and Modern Dutch are the descendants of Old Low Franconian.
Dutch is part of the German dialect continuum from a structural point of
view; sociolinguistically, of course, it's been separate for a long time.
And some dialects of the eastern Netherlands are more like Low Saxon than
like standard Dutch.

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