Language, Material Culture and Ethnifying on the Carolingian Borders

Abstract

This paper presents a method of decoding the toponymic systems in the area of Slavic-German language contact with the aim of determining where, when and in which domain the Slavic or German language was realized.

Keywords

• language contact
• ethnicity
• onomastics
• archaeology
• 700–900
• Early Middle Ages
• Carolingian Empire
• Franconia
• Bavaria
• Cheb region