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Name: Old Saxon

Type: Language

Alternate Name: Altnieder-deutsch

Code: osx

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: LINGUIST List

Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)

Parent Subgroup: North Sea Germanic; Ingvaeonic (nsge)

Child Language: Middle Low German; Mittelniederdeutsch; Middle Saxon (gml)

Brief Description: A language of Northern Germany. The ancestor of modern Low German. 9th - 12th centuries AD.

Endangerment Status

Linguist List Status: Extinct

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