Middle High German
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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.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
West Germanic language variety
ⓘ
historical language stage ⓘ stage of the German language ⓘ |
| developedInto |
New High German
ⓘ
surface form:
Early New High German
New High German ⓘ
surface form:
Modern German
|
| era |
High Middle Ages
ⓘ
Late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| follows | Old High German ⓘ |
| glottoStatus | treated as historical variety of German ⓘ |
| hasDialectGroup |
Central German languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Central German
Upper German ⓘ |
| hasNotableWork |
Minnesang lyric poetry
ⓘ
Nibelungenlied ⓘ Perceval ⓘ
surface form:
Parzival
Tristan ⓘ |
| hasStandardReference |
Middle High German dictionaries
ⓘ
Middle High German grammars ⓘ |
| influenced |
New High German
ⓘ
surface form:
Early New High German
standard German vocabulary ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
French
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| ISOStatus | has no separate ISO 639-1 code ⓘ |
| keyRole | intermediate stage in development of modern German ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Germanic languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
|
| languageSubbranch | West Germanic languages ⓘ |
| lexicalFeature | expansion of abstract vocabulary ⓘ |
| morphologicalFeature |
reduction of verbal endings
ⓘ
simplification of noun inflection ⓘ |
| phonologicalFeature |
loss of many Old High German unstressed vowels
ⓘ
reduction of diphthongs compared to Old High German ⓘ |
| precedes |
New High German
ⓘ
surface form:
Early New High German
|
| region |
central German-speaking areas
ⓘ
southern German-speaking areas ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
German philology
ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ |
| subgroupOf |
High German
ⓘ
surface form:
High German languages
|
| syntacticFeature | increasing use of fixed word order ⓘ |
| taughtIn | university German studies programs ⓘ |
| timePeriod | circa 1050–1350 ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature | fusional morphology ⓘ |
| usedBy |
courtly literature authors
ⓘ
medieval German poets ⓘ |
| usedFor |
courtly epics
ⓘ
legal documents ⓘ religious texts ⓘ |
| usedIn | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Adolf of Nassau
subject surface form:
Wolfram von Eschenbach