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Old High German
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English
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Old High German.wav Southern England
Proper noun
Old High German
The early recorded form of the High German language, spoken from the 8th century to the 11th century.
2019, Javier Caro Reina, Central Catalan and Swabian: A study in the framework of the typology of syllable and word languages (series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, vol. 422, edited by Claudia Polzin-Haumann and Wolfgang Schweickard), p. 318:
Old Alemannic is a dialect of Old High German, which is traditionally divided into two main dialect groups: Old Upper German (Altoberdeutsch) and Old Franconian (Altfränkisch). Old Upper German comprises Old Alemannic (Altalemannisch) and Old Bavarian (Altbairisch) while Old Franconian consists of Old Mid Franconian (Altmittelfränkisch), Old Rhine Franconian (Altrheinfränkisch), Old South-Rhine Franconian (Altsüdrheinfränkisch), and Old East Franconian (Altostfränkisch).
Synonyms
en OHG abbreviation
en Old High Dutch
Coordinate terms
varieties of German
en German
en High German (= en High Dutch)
en Middle High German, en Early Middle High German, en Early New High German, en New High German
en Central German, en Upper German
en Low German
en Gothic (East Germanic)
Translations
Old High German
Armenian: hy հին բարձր գերմաներեն
Catalan: ca alt alemany antic m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 古高地德語 Hans
Czech: cs stará horní němčina f, cs starohornoněmčina f
Danish: da oldhøjtysk
Dutch: nl Oudhoogduits n
Esperanto: eo malnovaltgermana
Finnish: fi muinaisyläsaksa
French: fr vieux haut-allemand m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Aldheechdútsk n
Galician: gl alto alemán antigo m
Georgian: ka ძველი ზემოგერმანული, ka ძველი ზემოგერმანული ენა
German: de Althochdeutsch n
Bavarian: bar Oidhochdeitsch
Hungarian: hu ófelnémet
Icelandic: is fornháþýska f
Irish: ga Sean-Ard-Ghearmáinis f
Italian: it alto tedesco antico m
Japanese: ja 古高ドイツ語 kokōdoitsugo
Macedonian: mk стар високогермански јазик
Norwegian: no gammelhøytysk m
Polish: pl język staro-wysoko-niemiecki m-in
Portuguese: pt alto alemão antigo m
Russian: ru древневе́рхненеме́цкий язы́к, ru древневерхненемецкий m
Slovak: sk stará horná nemčina f
Spanish: es antiguo alto alemán m
Swedish: sv fornhögtyska c
Turkish: tr Eski Yüksek Almanca
Yiddish: yi אַלטהויכדײַטש n, yi אַלטדײַטש n
Adjective
Old High German -
Concerning the Old High German language.
Herbert Penzl, Methods of textual linguistics and the old high German Ludwigslied, in: 1978, Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Edgar C. Polomé, Werner Winter (eds.), Linguistic and literary studies: In honor of Archibald A. Hill: III: Historical and comparative linguistics, p. 163ff., here p. 163:
[...] one particular Old High German text. This text is the Ludwigslied, which is 59 lines long and was written in a special Old Franconian dialect in 881 or 882 after the battle of Saucourt; [...]
Translations
Old High German
Danish: da oldhøjtysk
Dutch: nl Oudhoogduits
Georgian: ka ძველი ზემოგერმანული
German: de althochdeutsch
Hungarian: hu ófelnémet
Low German: nds oldhochdütsch
Polish: pl staro-wysoko-niemiecki
Russian: ru древневерхненемецкий
Slovak: sk starohornonemecký
See also
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Further reading
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