Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. language-related concepts
5. [languages and writing systems]
6. [languages and writing systems by specific type]
7. [temporary alphabetical list: languages and writing systems]
8. German (language)
9. High German (language)

Anotations

Scope note:

The variety of German language that developed after ca. 1100 CE, based on the upper German dialects Alemannic and Bavarian that had begun to arise in the southernmost part of Germany. Middle High German was the language of an extensive literature that includes the early 13th-century epic "Nibelungenlied."