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#* '''1837''', ''The Encyclopædia of Geography'' [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sFYWAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22middle+low+german%22]
#* '''1837''', ''The Encyclopædia of Geography'' [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sFYWAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22middle+low+german%22]
#*: The written language is nowhere spoken by the people; it was formed at the period when Luther, rejecting the Middle High and the '''Middle Low German''', adopted in preference the dialect of Misnia or Meissen, which had begun to be written much later.
#*: The written language is nowhere spoken by the people; it was formed at the period when Luther, rejecting the Middle High and the '''Middle Low German''', adopted in preference the dialect of Misnia or Meissen, which had begun to be written much later.
# {{rfv-sense|en|Cp.:
# {{lb|en|specifically|rarer}} The written standard of this language based on the dialects spoken on the eastern North Sea coast and western Baltic coast, opposed to the spoken dialects which were not used for official and international written communications.
* Stefan Mähl, ''Low German texts from Late Medieval Sweden'', p. 118. In: Lennart Elmevik and Ernst Håkon Jahr (eds.), ''Contact between Low German and Scandinavian in the Late Middle Ages: 25 Years of Research'', ''Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi CXXI/121'', Uppsala, 2012, pp. 113–122:
*: [...] Because of Lübeck’s dominant position in the German Hansa, researchers have assumed that the Middle Low German variety used by the city administration in Lübeck (the ''Lübecker Norm'') was a model for the Middle Low German language [...]. In handbooks, it is often claimed that only ''one'' Middle Low German language existed. This '''theory''', [...], has '''never''' been '''verified''' by sufficient empirical evidence. Recent studies show that the Middle Low German variety used by the city administration in Lübeck in the 14th and 15th centuries was '''not homogeneous''' at all. For instance, it was less homogeneous than the variety used by the city administration in Hamburg. In Westphalian cities such as Herford, Münster and Osnabrück, '''very little influence''' of the Lübeck variety has been attested. Therefore the German researcher Robert Peters labels the '''''Lübecker Norm'' a myth''' (Peters 1995).}} {{lb|en|specifically|rarer}} The written standard of this language based on the dialects spoken on the eastern North Sea coast and western Baltic coast, opposed to the spoken dialects which were not used for official and international written communications.


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Revision as of 09:20, 2 September 2021

English

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  • MLG (abbreviation)

Proper noun

Middle Low German

  1. A language that descended from Old Saxon and is the ancestor of modern Low German, spoken from about 1100 to 1600.
    Synonym: Middle Saxon
    • 1837, The Encyclopædia of Geography [1]
      The written language is nowhere spoken by the people; it was formed at the period when Luther, rejecting the Middle High and the Middle Low German, adopted in preference the dialect of Misnia or Meissen, which had begun to be written much later.
  2. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (specifically, rarer) The written standard of this language based on the dialects spoken on the eastern North Sea coast and western Baltic coast, opposed to the spoken dialects which were not used for official and international written communications.

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