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.

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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

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Middle Norwegian sharesFeatureWith Middle Swedish
Swedish medieval provincial laws language Middle Swedish
this entity surface form: Old Swedish