Saxon language explained

Saxon language may refer to:

• Old Saxon, a Germanic language and the earliest recorded form of Low German
  • Middle Saxon, a language that is the descendant of Old Saxon and the ancestor of modern Low German
  • Low Saxon language or Low German, modern successor language of Old Saxon
• Anglo-Saxon language or Old English, the ancestor of modern English
  • West Saxon dialect, one of the four main dialects of Old English
• Upper Saxon German, an East Central German dialect spoken in much of the modern German State of Saxony
• Transylvanian Saxon dialect, dialect of the Transylvanian Saxons in the Moselle Franconian group of West Central German dialects

See also

• Saxon (disambiguation)
• Anglo-Frisian languages