Middle Swedish
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Middle Swedish was a historical stage of the Swedish language spoken roughly between the 13th and 16th centuries, marking the transition from Old Swedish to Modern Swedish.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Middle Swedish canonical | 1 |
| Old Swedish | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
North Germanic language variety
ⓘ
historical language stage ⓘ stage of the Swedish language ⓘ |
| developedFrom | Old Swedish ⓘ |
| developedInto |
Early Modern Swedish
ⓘ
Modern Swedish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 16th century ⓘ |
| era |
early modern period
ⓘ
late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
Germanic philology
ⓘ
Nordic linguistics ⓘ |
| follows | Old Swedish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
medelsvenska
ⓘ
mellansvenska ⓘ |
| hasChronologicalPosition | middle stage of Swedish ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Götaland varieties
ⓘ
Svealand varieties ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
development of periphrastic tense forms
ⓘ
emergence of definite article suffixes ⓘ growing distinction between spoken and written language ⓘ increasing use of fixed word order ⓘ reduction of noun inflection ⓘ simplification of case system ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRegulator | none (no formal language academy) ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalChange | loss of many Old Norse inflectional endings ⓘ |
| hasOrthographicChange | gradual replacement of runes by Latin script ⓘ |
| hasOrthographicChange | increasing standardization of spelling ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalChange | vowel quality changes leading toward Modern Swedish system ⓘ |
| influenced |
Modern Swedish orthography
ⓘ
Modern Swedish vocabulary ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Latin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Low German NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ISOStatus | no separate ISO 639 code (substage of Swedish) ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Germanic languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
North Germanic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Gustav Vasa Bible NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | history of the Swedish language ⓘ |
| precedes | Modern Swedish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Kingdom of Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 13th century ⓘ |
| usedBy | Swedish-speaking population of medieval Sweden ⓘ |
| usedFor |
administrative documents
ⓘ
legal texts ⓘ literary texts ⓘ religious texts ⓘ |
| usedIn | Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Old Swedish