Middle Low German
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Middle Low German is a historical West Germanic language used in northern Germany and surrounding regions during the late medieval period, notably serving as the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Middle Low German canonical | 39 |
| Middelnederduits | 2 |
| Mittelniederdeutsch | 2 |
| Middle Low German language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T579550 — 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 German Context triple: [Low German, hasAncestor, Middle Low German]
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A.
Low German
Low German is a West Germanic language traditionally spoken in northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands, known for its distinct phonology and vocabulary that set it apart from Standard German.
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B.
Middle High German
Middle High German is the form of the German language used roughly between 1050 and 1350, known from medieval literature such as the Nibelungenlied and serving as a key stage in the development toward modern German.
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C.
Rhenish Franconian
Rhenish Franconian is a group of West Central German dialects spoken primarily in parts of western Germany, Luxembourg, and eastern France.
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D.
Middle Dutch
Middle Dutch is the group of closely related West Germanic dialects spoken and written in the Low Countries roughly between 1150 and 1500, forming the historical linguistic stage between Old Dutch and modern Dutch.
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E.
East Franconian
East Franconian is a High German dialect spoken primarily in parts of northern Bavaria, Thuringia, and Baden-Württemberg, forming a transitional variety between Upper and Central German dialects.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Middle Low German Target entity description: Middle Low German is a historical West Germanic language used in northern Germany and surrounding regions during the late medieval period, notably serving as the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League.
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A.
Low German
Low German is a West Germanic language traditionally spoken in northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands, known for its distinct phonology and vocabulary that set it apart from Standard German.
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B.
Middle High German
Middle High German is the form of the German language used roughly between 1050 and 1350, known from medieval literature such as the Nibelungenlied and serving as a key stage in the development toward modern German.
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C.
Rhenish Franconian
Rhenish Franconian is a group of West Central German dialects spoken primarily in parts of western Germany, Luxembourg, and eastern France.
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D.
Middle Dutch
Middle Dutch is the group of closely related West Germanic dialects spoken and written in the Low Countries roughly between 1150 and 1500, forming the historical linguistic stage between Old Dutch and modern Dutch.
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E.
East Franconian
East Franconian is a High German dialect spoken primarily in parts of northern Bavaria, Thuringia, and Baden-Württemberg, forming a transitional variety between Upper and Central German dialects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
West Germanic language
ⓘ
historical language ⓘ medieval language ⓘ |
| endTime | circa 1600 ⓘ |
| era |
High Middle Ages
ⓘ
Late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| follows | Old Saxon ⓘ |
| glottologCode | midd1343 ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Middle Low German
ⓘ
surface form:
Middelnederduits
Middle Low Saxon ⓘ Middle Low German ⓘ
surface form:
Mittelniederdeutsch
|
| hasAncestor | Old Saxon ⓘ |
| hasDescendant |
Plautdietsch (among Mennonite Volga Germans)
ⓘ
surface form:
Mennonite Low German
Low German ⓘ
surface form:
Modern Low German
Plautdietsch (among Mennonite Volga Germans) ⓘ
surface form:
Plautdietsch
|
| hasDialect |
Low German
ⓘ
surface form:
Baltic Low German
Low German ⓘ
surface form:
East Low German
Eastphalian ⓘ Low Saxon dialect continuum ⓘ
surface form:
North Low Saxon
Westphalian ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature | lack of High German consonant shift ⓘ |
| hasWritingTradition |
city laws
ⓘ
commercial documents ⓘ legal texts ⓘ religious texts ⓘ |
| influenced |
Danish
ⓘ
Estonian ⓘ Finnish language ⓘ
surface form:
Finnish
Latvian ⓘ Norwegian language ⓘ
surface form:
Norwegian
Polish language ⓘ
surface form:
Polish
Russian ⓘ North Germanic languages ⓘ
surface form:
Scandinavian languages
Swedish ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | gml ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Germanic languages
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
West Germanic languages ⓘ |
| linguaFrancaOf |
Hanseatic League (historical)
ⓘ
surface form:
Hanseatic League
|
| precedes |
Low German
ⓘ
surface form:
Modern Low German
|
| startTime | circa 1100 ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Germanic language
ⓘ
Low German ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Baltic Sea coast region
ⓘ
surface form:
Baltic Sea region
Baltic states ⓘ Hanseatic cities ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ North Sea ⓘ
surface form:
North Sea region
Northern Germany ⓘ Poland ⓘ Scandinavia ⓘ Teutonic Order state ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: Middle Low German Description of subject: Middle Low German is a historical West Germanic language used in northern Germany and surrounding regions during the late medieval period, notably serving as the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.