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Encyclopedia > Middle Low German

The Middle Low German language is an ancestor of the modern Low German language, and was spoken from about 1100 to 1500. Later Middle Low German split off into Low Franconian language, Low Saxon and East Low German.


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Middle Saxon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (244 words)
Middle Saxon (also called Middle Low German) is the descendant of Old Saxon and is the ancestor of modern Low Saxon.
Middle Saxon was the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League, spoken all around the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
Reasons for the loss of prestige of Low Saxon were the decline of the Hanseatic League that was followed by political heteronomy of Northern Germany, but also the cultural predominance of Middle and Southern Germany for instance through the Protestant Reformation.
Low Saxon-Low Franconian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (576 words)
Middle Low German was the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League.
To this day no evidence is found on Low Saxon and Low Franconian ever having a common ancestor, and in linguistics the term Low German is mainly used to indentify West Germanic language who have not experienced the High German consonant shift, or the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.
The Low Saxon-Low Franconian languages are not characterized by a common linguistic innovation, but they are the West Germanic languages that have neither been affected by the High German consonant shift nor by the Anglo-Frisian palatalizations.
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