English

Proper noun

Middle Dutch

1. Collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects (whose ancestor was Old Dutch) which were spoken and written between 1150 and 1500 in the present-day Dutch-speaking area. There was at that time as yet no overarching standard language, but they were all mutually intelligible.

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See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Middle Dutch terms

External links

• ISO 639-3 code dum (SIL)