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Abstract
A Burgundian regnum existed in southeast France from 436 until 534, the year in which it was integrated into the Merovingian empire of the Franks, where it had an important afterlife as a so called ‘Teilreich’ equipped with its own kings. On the basis of new sources, mostly contemporary personal names, and by means of morphological, phonological and lexical methods, new results concerning the spatial and temporal extension of the Burgundian language can be established. The Burgundians had centers of settlement especially in the rural regions of the Swiss canton Vaud, of the Pays des Dombes near Lyon, and of the Franche Comté. The East Germanic Burgundian language died approximately at the end of the 6th century.
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