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Middle Danish
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English
Proper noun
Middle Danish
The Danish language as spoken from the 12th to 15th centuries.
en 2013 Ekkehard Konig; Johan van der Auwera The Germanic Languages Routledge 9781317799580 6 The history of the Danish language falls into three major periods: Old Danish (c. 800—c.1100), corresponding roughly to the Viking Age; Middle Danish (c.1100— c.1525), corresponding to the Middle Ages; and Modern Danish (after c.1525), the period after the Reformation and up to modern times.
en 2010 Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World 279 Elsevier 9780080877754 Historically, the Danish language may be divided into three periods: Old Danish (c. 800–1100) spans the Viking Age, Middle Danish (c. 1100–1500) was the language of the late Middle Ages, and Modern Danish covers the time from around the Reformation (and the first translation of the Bible) to the present.
Coordinate terms
en Old Danish
en Modern Danish
Translations
Middle Danish
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 中古丹麥語
Danish: da gammeldansk
French: fr moyen danois m
Swedish: sv forndanska c
Further reading
History of Danish