Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. language-related concepts
5. [languages and writing systems]
6. [languages and writing systems by specific type]
7. [temporary alphabetical list: languages and writing systems]
8. Dutch (language)

Anotations

Scope note:

A progenitor of the modern Dutch language as it was spoken from about 1150 to about 1550, itself a collection of dialects including Flemish, Brabantic, Hollandic, and Limburgic. Middle Dutch derives from Low Franconian, the speech of the Western Franks, which was restructured through contact with speakers of North Sea Germanic along the coast (Flanders, Holland) about 700 CE.