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'''Old High German''' is the earliest recorded historical stage of development of those central and southern dialects of [[German language|German]] that participated in the [[Second Consonant Shift|Second or High German Consonant Shift]] and which came to form the basis for Modern Standard High German. This period stretches from ca. AD 750 until ca. 1100 and is demarcated at the beginning by the onset of literacy and at the end by the further gradual development of the language into [[Middle High German]], usually marked by the loss of full final vowels.
'''Old High German''' is the earliest recorded historical stage of development of those central and southern dialects of [[German language|German]] that participated in the [[Second Consonant Shift|Second or High German Consonant Shift]] and which came to form the basis for Modern Standard High German. This period stretches from ca. AD 750 until ca. 1100 and is demarcated at the beginning by the onset of literacy and at the end by the further gradual development of the language into [[Middle High German]], usually marked by the loss of full final vowels.
==Bibliography==
*Wilhelm Braune. 1994. ''Althochdeutsches Lesebuch''. 17th ed. by Ernst A. Ebbinghaus. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. ISBN 3484107073 / ISBN 3484107081
*Wilhelm Braune. 2004. ''Althochdeutsche Grammatik I: Laut- und Formenlehre''. 15th ed. by Ingo Reiffenstein. Sammlung kurzer Grammatiken Germanischer Dialekten A. 5/1. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. ISBN 3484108614
*Jeffrey Ellis. 1953. ''An elementary Old High German grammar, descriptive and comparative''. Oxford: Clarendon.
*Franz Lösel. 1969. ''A short Old High German grammar and reader, with glossary''. Dublin: Dublin University Press.
*Richard Schrodt. 2004. ''Althochdeutsche Grammatik II: Syntax''. Sammlung kurzer Grammatiken Germanischer Dialekten A. 5/2. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. ISBN 3484108622
*Joseph Wright. 1906. ''An Old High German primer, with grammar, notes, and glossary''. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon.

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Old High German is the earliest recorded historical stage of development of those central and southern dialects of German that participated in the Second or High German Consonant Shift and which came to form the basis for Modern Standard High German. This period stretches from ca. AD 750 until ca. 1100 and is demarcated at the beginning by the onset of literacy and at the end by the further gradual development of the language into Middle High German, usually marked by the loss of full final vowels.

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