pre-modern standard languages
Steven Schaufele
fcosw5 at mail.scu.edu.tw
Mon Mar 22 11:24:42 UTC 1999
maher, johnpeter wrote:
> The Upper Silesian dialect had a wide currency in many courts
> outside its own region as Kanzleisprache before Luther. That's why he
> used it.
Wasn't it also his native language/dialect? Not that this necessarily
makes a great deal of difference (if it were already a lingua franca in
at least part of 15th-cent. Germany, that would probably have been
reason enough), but i seem to remember being told that -- by fortuitous
circumstance -- Luther happened to be a native speaker thereof.
Best,
Steven
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