Old Thuringian dialect
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| region = Duchy of Thuringia
| era = 12th century
| ethnicity = Thuringii
| familycolor = Indo-European
| fam2 = Germanic
| fam3 = West Germanic
| fam4 = North Sea Germanic
| fam5 = High German/Old Low German
| fam6 = Central German
| fam7 = East Central German
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| map = 2022 04 16 - MAP West Germanic – cc. 580 CE - END.png
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Old Thuringian is a Central German dialect of Old High German that is known through onomastic proof.{{Cite book |last=Nielsen |first=Hans Frede |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lb5bBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA45 |title=The Germanic Languages: Origins and Early Dialectal Interrelations |date=1989-03-30 |publisher=University of Alabama Press |isbn=978-0-8173-0423-2 |pages=45 |language=en}} It may also be included in Old Low German alongside Old Saxon and Old Frisian.{{Cite book |last=Noble |first=Cecil Arthur M. |url= |title=Modern German Dialects |date=1983 |publisher=P. Lang |isbn=978-0-8204-0025-9 |pages=30 |language=en}}
Background
Thuringian emerged in the year 1100 A.D. when several groups such as Franconians, Bavarians, Saxons, and Flemish people migrants toward more eastern areas, where Polabian Slavs once occupied.{{Cite web |last= |title=Thuringia (Thüringen) |url=https://www.iamexpat.de/lifestyle/german-federal-states/thuringia-thuringen |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=IamExpat |language=en-GB}}
Sample text
{{Clarify span|The words of text such as liubi for leubi and leob for leub may indicate a form of Old Thuringian.|date=July 2024}}{{Cite book |last1=MacLeod |first1=Mindy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hx7UigqsTKoC&pg=PA47 |title=Runic Amulets and Magic Objects |last2=Mees |first2=Bernard |date=2006 |publisher=Boydell Press |isbn=978-1-84383-205-8 |pages=47 |language=en}}
Hiba liubi leob.}}