Early New High German

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Early New High German is a historical stage of the German language, spoken roughly between the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, that served as a transitional phase between Middle High German and modern standard German.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical stage of the German language
language variety
associatedWith Luther Bible
Martin Luther
characterizedBy increasing written standardization
morphological simplification
phonological changes from Middle High German
regional variation in orthography
developedInto Standard German
surface form: Modern Standard German

New High German
endTime circa 1650
follows Middle High German
hasAlternativeName Early New High German
surface form: Frühneuhochdeutsch
hasDialectContinuumWith Central German languages
surface form: Central German dialects

Upper German
surface form: Upper German dialects
hasFeature changes in case endings
emergence of supraregional written norms
increasing use of periphrastic verb forms
transition of vowel system toward modern German
variation between Upper and Central German forms
influenced Amtliches Regelwerk der deutschen Rechtschreibung
surface form: Modern German orthography

Modern German phonology
influencedBy Middle High German
languageBranch Germanic languages
languageCodeStatus has no separate ISO 639-1 code
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
languageGroup High German languages
languageSubbranch West Germanic languages
partOf history of the German language
precedes New High German
surface form: Modern High German

Standard German
surface form: Modern Standard German
region German-speaking areas north and south of the Alps
spokenIn German-speaking Central Europe
Holy Roman Empire
standardizationMilestone Luther Bible
surface form: Luther Bible translation (16th century)
startTime circa 1350
studiedInDiscipline German philology
historical linguistics
subclassOf High German
timeDepth approximately 300 years
usedFor administrative writing
literary works
religious texts
usedInPeriod early modern period
late Middle Ages
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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New High German follows Early New High German
Theuerdank language Early New High German
Carolina (Constitutio Criminalis Carolina) language Early New High German
subject surface form: Constitutio Criminalis Carolina
Banat Swabian dialect hasAncestor Early New High German
Luther family language Early New High German
Early New High German hasAlternativeName Early New High German
this entity surface form: Frühneuhochdeutsch
Stuttgart (from late 15th century) language Early New High German
subject surface form: Stuttgart
this entity surface form: Early New High German (Swabian dialect)
Anna Adlischweiler languageOfEnvironment Early New High German
Württemberg-Bernstadt historicalLanguageContext Early New High German
Aurora language Early New High German