Imagine if the french spoke gaulish or frankish

Catalans are catalans, basques are basques, bretons are bretons, gascons were gascons, same for other people in gaul, there was no higher identity than this.

>when they identified in no way as this and has no connection to the Franks or the rulers of this state.
Up until Philippe Auguste, the kings of France referred to themselves as Rex Francorum. Same title as Big Charlie had before Larping as Rome.

No because ‘the Franks’ everyone speaks of are the Salians, who spoke a dialect known as low Franconian.
They settled in Belgium and neighbouring areas

The Repuarians were related to them but not the exact same tribe.
This is also speaking of the early Franks. They were a tribe that expanded many times, ansorbing other tribes that weren’t Salians at all.
By Charlemagnes time The Franks were not the same tribe that settled Belgium, although they were its core

because Byzantines called them Franks? Vice versa You see Muslim call every Balkan Christian Roman

>the kings of France
And they had no cultural or any historical relation to the people they ruled over.

the frankish kings were to its subjects as the habsburgs were to hungarians.

The Hapsburgs where what to the Hungarians? You do realize that all European countries have (or had) foreign families become monarchs? This was not unusual at all, it was the norm.

Low Frankish is Dutch. Lower Franconia is a region in northern Bavaria.
The dialect in Aachen is Riperurian, which is a middle frankish dialect and not a low frankish one.
The Salians and Riperurains were already united by the year 500 and both people were identified as franks before then.

>Low Frankish is Dutch
It's called "Low Franconian" in English
>Lower Franconia is a region in northern Bavaria.
... i'm still right to call dutch "low franconian", the name of some german region (regardless of language) does not determine english naming conventions of west germanic dialects.

>The dialect in Aachen is Riperurian
It's near the dialect border with low franconian (as you probably know) but more importantly, Old Dutch has been attested in that area.

Almost all of the ripuerian dialect zone is near the dialect border...
But what is it the main language being spoken there?

>But what is it the main language being spoken there?
Your question was about the language of the Franks, historical records mainly suggest mainly Old Dutch. But as I said, the difference wasn't as great back then. I believe all "Frankish" dialects fall under the umbrella "Istvaeonic", but those dialects spoken further up the Rhine have since been under more influence from Irminonic (high german) varieties. At least that's my understanding.

well, yeah, just like pretty much all high ranking nobility

the Habsburg (an Austrian family) reigned over Spain, oriental and occidental India and the Netherlands
the Bourbons (descendants from a french king, amongst others) are reigning over Spain
England got reigned over by the Roman, by the Danes, by the Normans, then after failed political experiments, imported a German family to be reigned over (then that family abandonned its German family name during WW1 to lessen the butthurt)
Swedes are being reigned over by a French family droped into position by Napoleon

nothing is more muttified and detached from the local people than royal families

The Franks spoke old frankish from which high, middle and low frankish are derived from.
The high german constant shift that split low frankish and low saxon from high german happend after the establishment of the frankish empire and went right trough the frankish hearthland.

The habsburg are actually originally from switzerland.