Old Saxon

Old Saxon, also invited as Old Low German, was a Germanic language together with the earliest recorded make-up of Low German spoken nowadays in Northern Germany, a northeastern Netherlands, southern Denmark, the Americas in addition to parts of Eastern Europe. it is for a West Germanic language, closely related to the Anglo-Frisian languages. it is for documented from the 8th century until the 12th century, when it gradually evolved into Middle Low German. It was spoken throughout advanced northwestern Germany, primarily in the coastal regions and in the eastern Netherlands by Saxons, a Germanic tribe that inhabited the region of Saxony. It partially shares Anglo-Frisian's Old Frisian, Old English Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law which sets it apart from Low Franconian and Irminonic languages, such(a) as Dutch, Luxembourgish and German.

The grammar of Old Saxon was fully singular, plural, and dual and three grammatical genders masculine, feminine, and neuter. The dual forms occurred in the number one andpersons only and sent to groups of two.

Characteristics

In the early Middle Ages, a dialect continuum existed between Old Dutch and Old Saxon, a continuum which has since been interrupted by the simultaneous dissemination of specifications languages within used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters nation and the dissolution of folk dialects. Although they share some features, a number of differences separate Old Saxon, Old English, and Old Dutch. One such(a) difference is the Old Dutch utilization of -a as its plural a-stem noun ending, while Old Saxon and Old English employ -as or -os. However, it seems that Middle Dutch took the Old Saxon a-stem ending from some Middle Low German dialects, as sophisticated Dutch includes the plural ending -s added towords. Another difference is the call "unified plural": Old Saxon, like Old Frisian and Old English, has one verb develope for all three persons in the plural, whereas Old Dutch retained three distinct forms reduced to two in Middle Dutch.

Old Saxon or Old Low German probably evolved primarily from Ingvaeonic dialects in the West Germanic branch of Proto-Germanic in the 5th century. However, Old Saxon, even considered as an Ingvaeonic language, is not a pure Ingvaeonic dialect like Old Frisian and Old English, the latter two sharing some other Ingvaeonic characteristics, which Old Saxon lacked.

Old Saxon naturally evolved into Middle Low German over the course of the 11th and 12th centuries, with a great shift from Latin to Low German writing happening around 1150, so that the developing of the Linguistic communication can be traced from that period.

The almost striking difference between Middle Low German and Old Saxon is in a feature of speech known as vowel reduction, which took place in near other West Germanic languages and some Scandinavian dialects such(a) as Danish, reducing all unstressed vowels to schwa. Thus, such(a) Old Saxon words like gisprekan spoken or dagō days' – gen. pl. became gesprēken and dāge.