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Meaning of Middle Low Saxon | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A language or collection of dialects that descended from Old Saxon and is the ancestor of modern Low Saxon, spoken from about 1100 to 1600.

Examples

“Furthermore, there was another cultural movement which also changed the map: that of Middle Low Saxon (the language of the Hanseatic League) which brought zik-forms into north-eastern Dutch dialects in Twente and Groningen during the period of the Hanseatic League, the 13th and 15th centuries, after the Middle High German sich had been adapted to sik (cf. …).”
“Their linguistic profile [= the linguistic profile of the later sources of Old Frisian] corresponds rather to that found in contemporaneous languages from the surrounding areas, namely, Middle Dutch, Middle Low Saxon, or Middle English, which attest a more advanced stage of phonological, morphological and, more generally, typological development.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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