[File:Frankischetalen.png|300px|right|thumb|Franconian languages in Europe| Map showing the areas in Europe where the Franconian languages and dialects are currently spoken. Legend: ]] Franconian (; ) is a term for a number of West Germanic languages and dialects possibly derived from the languages and dialects originally spoken by the Franks from their ethnogenesis in the 3rd century AD. The languages that evolved in the northern and eastern lands of Francia included Low Franconian, of which present-day Dutch is the primary member, the West Central German Rhine Franconian and Central Franconian dialects (including Luxembourgish), as well as transitional High Franconian German dialects.