Middle High German

Middle High German
Middle High German
Diutsch
Region	Central and southern Germany (south of the Benrath line), Austria and parts of Switzerland
Era	High Middle Ages
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic German Middle High German; ; ; ;
Early forms:	Old High German Middle High German;
Language codes
ISO 639-2	gmh
ISO 639-3	gmh
ISO 639-6	mdgr
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Middle High German is the form of the German language spoken and written in the High Middle Ages. It is usually placed in the period between 1050 and 1350. It developed from Old High German and then developed into Early New High German.^[1]

A page of the Manesse Codex, written in Middle High German

Middle High German Media

German territorial expansion in the Middle High German period (adapted from Walter Kuhn)----* Germanic peoples before AD 700* Ostsiedlung, 8th–11th centuries* Expansion in the 12th century* Expansion in the 13th century* Expansion in the 14th century
German territorial expansion before 1400 from F. W. Putzger
Middle High German dialect boundaries
Manuscript B of Hartmann von Aue's Iwein (Gießen, UB, Hs. 97), folio 1r
Manuscript C of the Nibelungenlied, fol.1r