| mittel-niederdeutsche schriftsprache, "standard middle low german", hansesprache ¶ used as an administrative and also literary idiom from c.1200-1650, based on the confederation of cities in the Hanseatic League ; subsequently submerged ◁ [52=] Hochdeutsch-F. (High German) as official standard language in North Germany ⊕ Hamburg; Bremen; Lübeck... (with usage closest to Lübeck, cf.modern Lübeckisch) |