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See also:GERMAN See also:LANGUAGE
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Together with See also:English and Frisian, the See also:German See also:language forms See also:part of the See also:West Germanic See also:group of See also:languages
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To this group belongs also Langobardian, a See also:dialect which died out in the 9th or loth See also:century, while Burgundian, traces of which are not met with later than the 5th century, is usually classed with the See also:East Germanic group
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Both these See also:tongues were at an See also:early See also:stage crushed out by See also:Romance dialects, a See also:fate which also overtook the See also:idiom of the Western See also:Franks, who, in the so-called See also:Strassburg Oaths 1 of 842, use the Romance See also:tongue, and are addressed in that tongue by See also: |
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