MLG
MLG is the initialism of Middle Low German.
MLG is the initialism of Mennonite Low German.
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Meaning of Middle Low German
Proper noun
Middle Low German
- A language or collection of dialects that descended from Old Saxon and is the ancestor of modern Low German, spoken from about 1100 to 1600.
- The written language is nowhere spoken by the people; it was formed at the period when Luther, rejecting the Middle High and the Middle Low German, adopted in preference the dialect of Misnia or Meissen, which had begun to be written much later.1837, The Encyclopædia of Geography
- Synonyms:
- Middle Saxon
Meaning of Mennonite Low German
Proper noun
Mennonite Low German
- A variety or dialect of Low Prussian of East Low German with Dutch influence that developed in the 16th and 17th centuries in the Vistula delta area of Royal Prussia and which is now spoken by communities not only in Germany but also in North America (Canada, the United States, and Mexico), South America (Argentina, Brazil), Russia and some other places. (Not to be confused with the High German language Pennsylvania German; both are spoken in Pennsylvania.)
- Synonyms:
- Plautdietsch, Plauttdietsch
Questions about MLG
- What is MLG the initialism of?
- MLG is the initialism of Middle Low German.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: MLG (page history and authors); Middle Low German (page history and authors); Mennonite Low German (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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