Citations:Middle Low German

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The written standard of this language based on the dialects spoken on the eastern North Sea coast and western Baltic coast, opposed to the spoken dialects which were not used for official and international written communications=====
 * Stefan Mähl, Low German texts from Late Medieval Sweden, p. 118. In: Lennart Elmevik and Ernst Håkon Jahr (eds.), Contact between Low German and Scandinavian in the Late Middle Ages: 25 Years of Research, Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi CXXI/121, Uppsala, 2012, pp. 113–122:
 * [...] Because of Lübeck’s dominant position in the German Hansa, researchers have assumed that the Middle Low German variety used by the city administration in Lübeck (the Lübecker Norm) was a model for the Middle Low German language [...]. In handbooks, it is often claimed that only one Middle Low German language existed. This theory, [...], has never been verified by sufficient empirical evidence. Recent studies show that the Middle Low German variety used by the city administration in Lübeck in the 14th and 15th centuries was not homogeneous at all. For instance, it was less homogeneous than the variety used by the city administration in Hamburg. In Westphalian cities such as Herford, Münster and Osnabrück, very little influence of the Lübeck variety has been attested. Therefore the German researcher Robert Peters labels the Lübecker Norm a myth (Peters 1995).}}