Abrogans

Abrogans (also Codex Abrogans) is probably the oldest book in the German language. It concerns a hand-written Latin-to-Old High German dictionary (or also glossary, or word-list) of synonyms from the 8th Century (765-775). It was copied several times; however, only one copy has remained preserved in the library of St. Gallen to the present. It is named after the first entry in the glossary: abrogans = modesty, humility. Occasionally, this work is attributed to th

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The history of the German language begins with the High German consonant shift during the Migration period, separating South Germanic dialects from common West Germanic. The earliest testimonies of Old High German are from scattered Elder Futhark inscriptions, especially in Alemannic, from the 6th century, the earliest glosses (Abrogans) date to the 8th and the oldest coherent texts (the Hildebrandslied, the Muspilli and the Merseburg Incantations) to the 9th century. Old Saxon at this time belongs to the North Sea Germanic cultural sphere, and Low German should fall under German rather than Anglo-Fris ...

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