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Middle High German
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Region Central and southern Germany (south of the Benrath line), Austria and parts of Switzerland
Era High Middle Ages
Language family
Early forms:
Old High German
  • Middle High German
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Middle High German is the form of the German language spoken and written in the High Middle Ages. It is usually placed in the period between 1050 and 1350. It developed from Old High German and then developed into Early New High German.

Codex Manesse 27v
A page of the Manesse Codex, written in Middle High German

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  • Deutsche Ostsiedlung

    German territorial expansion before 1400 from F. W. Putzger

  • Middle High German dialects

    Middle High German dialect boundaries

  • Hartmann von Aue's Iwein, Manuscript B, fol. 1r

    Manuscript B of Hartmann von Aue's Iwein (Gießen, UB, Hs. 97), folio 1r

  • Nibelungenlied manuscript-c f1r

    Manuscript C of the Nibelungenlied, fol.1r

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