Middle Low Saxon
E369555
Middle Low Saxon is a historical West Germanic language once widely used in northern Germany and surrounding regions, particularly as a lingua franca of the Hanseatic League.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Middle Low Saxon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3510876 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Middle Low Saxon Context triple: [Middle Low German, hasAlternativeName, Middle Low Saxon]
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Old Saxon
Old Saxon is an early West Germanic language spoken by the Saxons in what is now northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands, best known from texts like the biblical poem Heliand and as an ancestor of Low German.
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B.
Old English
Old English is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken and written in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland roughly between the 5th and 12th centuries.
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C.
Upper Saxon
Upper Saxon is a Central German dialect spoken primarily in the German state of Saxony and surrounding areas, often associated with the regional speech of cities like Dresden and Leipzig.
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D.
Old Frisian
Old Frisian is an early medieval West Germanic language, ancestral to modern Frisian, once spoken along the North Sea coast in what is now the northern Netherlands and northwestern Germany.
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Middle English
Middle English is the historical stage of the English language spoken and written roughly between the late 11th and late 15th centuries, exemplified by works like Chaucer’s "Canterbury Tales."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Middle Low Saxon Target entity description: Middle Low Saxon is a historical West Germanic language once widely used in northern Germany and surrounding regions, particularly as a lingua franca of the Hanseatic League.
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A.
Old Saxon
Old Saxon is an early West Germanic language spoken by the Saxons in what is now northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands, best known from texts like the biblical poem Heliand and as an ancestor of Low German.
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B.
Old English
Old English is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken and written in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland roughly between the 5th and 12th centuries.
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C.
Upper Saxon
Upper Saxon is a Central German dialect spoken primarily in the German state of Saxony and surrounding areas, often associated with the regional speech of cities like Dresden and Leipzig.
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D.
Old Frisian
Old Frisian is an early medieval West Germanic language, ancestral to modern Frisian, once spoken along the North Sea coast in what is now the northern Netherlands and northwestern Germany.
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E.
Middle English
Middle English is the historical stage of the English language spoken and written roughly between the late 11th and late 15th centuries, exemplified by works like Chaucer’s "Canterbury Tales."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Low German language
ⓘ
West Germanic language ⓘ historical language ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Middle Low German ⓘ |
| era |
Late Middle Ages
ⓘ
Middle Ages ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Low German
ⓘ
surface form:
Modern Low German
|
| follows | Old Saxon ⓘ |
| hasAncestor | Old Saxon ⓘ |
| hasDescendant |
Low German
ⓘ
surface form:
East Low German
Low German ⓘ
surface form:
Low Prussian
Low German ⓘ
surface form:
Modern Low German
Westphalian dialect ⓘ
surface form:
West Low German
|
| hasFeature |
lack of High German consonant shift
ⓘ
reduction of case system ⓘ strong Low German phonology ⓘ |
| influenced |
Danish vocabulary
ⓘ
Norwegian vocabulary ⓘ Scandinavian urban dialects ⓘ Swedish vocabulary ⓘ |
| ISOStatus | historical language (no modern ISO 639-3 code) ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Germanic languages
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
West Germanic languages ⓘ |
| notableCenter |
Bremen
ⓘ
Gdańsk ⓘ
surface form:
Danzig
Hamburg ⓘ Lübeck ⓘ Rostock ⓘ |
| regionOfInfluence |
Hanseatic League (historical)
ⓘ
surface form:
Hanseatic trade network
|
| subclassOf |
Low Saxon dialect continuum
ⓘ
surface form:
Low Saxon
Middle Germanic language ⓘ |
| timePeriod | circa 1200–1600 ⓘ |
| usedAs | lingua franca ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Hanseatic League (historical)
ⓘ
surface form:
Hanseatic League
|
| usedFor |
administration
ⓘ
legal documents ⓘ trade ⓘ urban records ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Baltic Sea region
ⓘ
Livonia NERFINISHED ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ North Sea ⓘ
surface form:
North Sea region
Poland ⓘ Prussia ⓘ Scandinavia ⓘ Northern Germany ⓘ
surface form:
northern Germany
|
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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Subject: Middle Low Saxon Description of subject: Middle Low Saxon is a historical West Germanic language once widely used in northern Germany and surrounding regions, particularly as a lingua franca of the Hanseatic League.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.