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- Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:57 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: lingua franca of the hanse
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Re: lingua franca of the hanse
With regards to the Hanseatic League, the "lingua franca" was the Lübeck dialect (e.g. "[The German linguistic community] was itself divided by the late thirteenth century into distinct areas of Low and High German, not always mutually comprehensible. Within the Low German area a standard form of sp...