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A Brief Introduction to Middle High German


For use in GEW 6405 with the permission of its
author, Professor Blake Lee Spahr (University of California, Berkeley).
I will be adding a few images and maps, and interactive assignments to
Professor Spahr's text, so this site can be considered to be "under construction" (W.H.)

Introduction

Chapter I -- The pronunciation of (normalized) MHG

Chapter II -- Articles and Nouns

Chapter III -- Verbs

Chapter IV -- Adjectives, Adverbs, Pronouns, and Demonstratives

Middle High German Resources in the WWW
The article on High German in the Online Encyclopedia Britannica
(contining a link to sites dealing with Middle High German)
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Mittelhochdeutsche Wörterbücher
(I have put in links to this resource throughout these MHG-pages;
you don't have to use it from this page!
. . .
Stay tuned!
. . .