Hanseatic language
Under Hanse language refers to the Middle Low German language of communication , which is about the 12th or 13th to the early 16th century, so the time of the Hanseatic League , in the North and Baltic Sea region served as a national means of communication. It was particularly important as a commercial language , legal language , language of diplomacy and literary language . Robert Peters states that the " Lübeck equalization language ", as he calls it, was "a spoken lingua franca that lay above the dialects " whose vocabulary was only slightly influenced by the surrounding Scandinavian and Baltic Slavic languages and Russian , although its usage is also different still partially limited to the corresponding Hanseatic branches, for example in Bergen or Novgorod .
literature
- Hadumod Bußmann (Ed.): Lexicon of Linguistics. 3rd updated and expanded edition. Kröner , Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-520-45203-0 .
- Robert Peters : Middle Low German Language . In: Jan Goossens (Ed.): Low German. Language and literature. An introduction. Volume 1: Language. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1973, pp. 66–115.
- Willy Sanders : Saxon language, Hanseatic language, Low German. Linguistic historical basics of Low German. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1982, p. 126. ISBN 3-525-01213-6
