Middle Low German

English

Alternative forms

• MLG (abbreviation)

Proper noun

Middle Low German

1. A language or collection of dialects 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.

Translations

language

• Danish: middelnedertysk
• Dutch: Middelnederduits (nl) n, Middelsaksisch n
• Estonian: Keskalamsaksa
• Finnish: keskialasaksa (fi)
• Galician: baixo alemán medio m
• German: Mittelniederdeutsch (de) n
• Icelandic: miðlágþýska f
• Khmer: អាល្លឺម៉ង់ក្រោមមជ្ឈិមសម័យ (aalləɨmɑŋ kraom maccʰɨm sa’may)
• Low German: Middelnedderdütsch n (as adjective: middelnedderdütsch), Mittelnedderdüütsch, Middelnederdütsch n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: middelnedertysk (no) m

• Russian: средненижненеме́цкий язы́к m (srednenižneneméckij jazýk)
• Swedish: medellågtyska (sv) c

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Middle Low German terms

Further reading

• ISO 639-3 code gml (SIL)