Old High German is generally dated from around 750 to around 1050. The start of this period sees the … See more

Old High German encompasses the dialects that had undergone the Second Sound Shift during the 6th century—namely all of Elbe Germanic and most of the Weser–Rhine Germanic dialects.
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There was no standard or supra-regional variety of Old High German—every text is written in a particular dialect, or in some cases a mixture of dialects. Broadly speaking, the main dialect divisions of Old High Germ… See more

Old High German literacy is a product of the monasteries, notably at St. Gallen, Reichenau Island and Fulda. Its origins lie in the establishment of the German church by Saint Boniface in the mid-8th century, and it was furthe… See more

Old High German marked the culmination of a shift away from runic writing of the pre-OHG period to Latin alphabet. This shift led to considerable variations in spelling conventions, as individual scribes and scriptoria h… See more

The charts show the vowel and consonant systems of the East Franconian dialect in the 9th century. This is the dialect of the monastery of Fulda, and specifically of the Old High German Tatian. Dictionaries and grammars … See more