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In linguistics, Old Dutch (or Old Low Franconian) denotes the Frankish dialects spoken and written in the Low Countries during the Early Middle Ages. It is regarded as the primary stage in the development of a separate Dutch language. It evolved from Old Frankish around the 6th century and in turn evolved into Middle Dutch around the 12th century.
Old Dutch was spoken by the populace which erstwhile occupied present-day Netherlands, northern Belgium, parts of northern France, and the Lower Rhine and Westphalia regions of Germany. The inhabitants of present-day Dutch provinces—including Groningen, Friesland and the coast of North Holland—spoke Old Frisian, while those of the east (Achterhoek, Overijssel and Drenthe) exercised Old Saxon.
Old West Low Franconian and Old East Low Franconian (cf. Limburgian) are very closely related, the divergence being that the latter shares more traits with neighboring Middle Franconian (e.g., Ripuarian and Mosel Franconian) while having fewer similarities to Old Saxon. While both forms of Low Franconian were instrumental to the framing of Middle Dutch, Old East Low Franconian did not contribute much to standard Dutch, which is based on the consolidated dialects of South Holland and Brabant.
Old or OLD may refer to:
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Baby i'm the fire and your body is my fuel,
The needle and the puppet in my sexual voodoo,
I've got this crazy drive and you know that i can not
be tamed,
When i kiss your burning skin i wanna hear my name,
You feed my wild side,
N' all i want from you,
Is your touch tonight,
You feed my wild side,
N' all i need from you,
Is your touch tonight,
Wild touch!
I'm afraid to think what i will turn this night into,
I gotta a hunger for though love and the target might
be you,
It doesn't really matter if you're only seventeen,
Satisfaction guaranteed i promise that you'll scream,
You feed my wild side,
N' all i want from you,
Is your touch tonight,
You feed my wild side,
N' all i need from you,
Is your touch tonight,
Wild touch!
Baby i'm the liar and you haven't got one clue,
What if i'm the teacher and i tell you that it's true,
Everybody in this sick world is just about the same,