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    Middle Low German (Low German: Middelsassisk, Middelsassisch, Middelnedderdüüsch or Middelneaderdüütsk, German: Mittelniederdeutsch, Dutch: Middelnederduits)...
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    Low German is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in...
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  • vocabulary from other languages) Low German languages Old Saxon† & Middle Low German† West Low German Northern Low Saxon East Frisian Low Saxon Westphalian...
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    German language begins in the Early Middle Ages with the High German consonant shift. Old High German, Middle High German, and Early New High German span...
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  • Middle High German (MHG; German: Mittelhochdeutsch (Mhdt., Mhd.)) is the term for the form of German spoken in the High Middle Ages. It is conventionally...
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    Germany as well as by minorities in northern Poland. Together with West Low German dialects, it forms a dialect continuum of the Low German language....
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  • 12th to 15th centuries) Middle Low German (language of the Hanseatic League, 12th to 17th centuries) Old Uyghur (Turkic language which was spoken in Qocho...
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    Central German or Middle German (German: mitteldeutsche Dialekte, mitteldeutsche Mundarten, Mitteldeutsch) is a group of High German languages spoken from...
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    historical phases of Low Franconian is not analogous to the traditional Old High German / Middle High German and Old Low German / Middle Low German dichotomies...
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    German (Standard High German: Deutsch, pronounced [dɔʏtʃ] ) is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely...
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    official language of Germany is German, with over 95 percent of the country speaking Standard German or a dialect of German as their first language. This...
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  • The High German languages (German: hochdeutsche Mundarten, i.e. High German dialects), or simply High German (Hochdeutsch) – not to be confused with Standard...
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    Old Saxon (redirect from Old Low German)
    Old Saxon (German: altsächsische Sprache), also known as Old Low German (German: altniederdeutsche Sprache), was a Germanic language and the earliest...
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    gradually replaced by Low Saxon since the Middle Ages. This local language is now, like Frisian, under threat by standard Dutch and German. Frisia highlighted...
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  • Mennonite Low German, a language or group of dialects spoken by Mennonites Middle Low German, a language spoken from about 1100 to 1600 Old Low German, a language...
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    German dialects are the various traditional local varieties of the German language. Though varied by region, those of the southern half of Germany beneath...
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    Huckster (category Articles containing Middle Low German-language text)
    black-market occupation. It is related to the Middle Dutch hokester, hoekster and the Middle Low German höker, but appears earlier than any of these....
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    second language speakers; since the Middle Ages, however, these languages have been strongly influenced by Middle Low German, a West Germanic language, and...
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    Elfdalian (redirect from Elfdalian language)
    consonants before *s: gą̊ss "goose" (Proto-Germanic *gans), įster "lard" (Middle Low German: inster). Old Norse loss of *n before *l and *r: ųor "our" (Proto-Norse...
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    Saturday (category Articles containing Middle Low German-language text)
    into West Germanic languages and is recorded in the Low German languages such as Middle Low German satersdach, saterdach, Middle Dutch saterdag (Modern...
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    from Low German (15th century), replacing Middle High German habe(ne); Pacht "lease", from West Central German, replacing Middle High German pfaht;...
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  • (betwixt, between/zwischen), mang, mank [maˑŋk] (among/unter) Languages of Germany Middle Low German Reinhard Goltz, Andrea Kleene, Niederdeutsch, in: Rahel...
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  • List of Portuguese words of Germanic origin (category Articles containing Middle Low German-language text)
    from English, Frankish, Langobardic, Middle Dutch, Middle High German, Middle Low German, Old English, Old High German, Old Norse, Old Swedish, and Visigothic...
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    Afrikaans. Other West Germanic languages related to Dutch are German, English and the un-standardised languages Low German and Yiddish. Dutch stands out...
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    Kraken (category Articles containing Middle Low German-language text)
    cognate with Middle Low German: krabbe, Old English: crabba, 'to crawl'. Pontoppidan of course wrote in Danish, the standard literary language for Norwegians...
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    Prawn (category Articles containing Middle Low German-language text)
    shrimp originated around the 14th century with the Middle English shrimpe, akin to the Middle Low German schrempen, and meaning to contract or wrinkle; and...
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  • Saxon language may refer to: Old Saxon, a Germanic language and the earliest recorded form of Low German Middle Saxon, a language that is the descendant...
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  • Cunt (category Articles containing Middle Low German-language text)
    and Middle Low German kunte; another Middle Low German kutte; Middle High German kotze (meaning "prostitute"); modern German kott; Middle Dutch conte; modern...
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    Týr (category Articles containing Middle Low German-language text)
    refer to the deity, including Middle Dutch Dinxendach and Dingsdag, Middle Low German Dingesdach, and Old High German Dingesdag (modern Dienstag). These...
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    Maarten and Suriname. It is a West Germanic, Low Franconian language that originated in the Early Middle Ages (c. 470) and was standardised in the 16th...
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