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Old Dutch
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Old Dutch
(also called
Old Low Franconian
) is the ancestor of modern
Dutch
, dating from about the 5th to 12th centuries. It is descended from
Germanic
languages
, notably
Frankish
, spoken in what is now the Netherlands and Belgium.