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Name:
Old High German
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
High German; Althochdeutsch; althochdeutsch
Code:
goh
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
LINGUIST List
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Subgroup:
West Germanic; Germanische Sprachen (wger)
Child Language:
Langobardic; Lombard (lng)
Child Dialect Groups:
Central German (goh-cen)
Upper Old High German (goh-upp)
Brief Description:
A language of Southern and Central Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The ancestor of modern High German. 8th - 11th centuries AD.
Linguist List Status: Extinct
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct
Map of Old High German
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