Answer the following question: Given the following passage "Estonian has been influenced by Swedish, German (initially Middle Low German, which was the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League and spoken natively in the territories of what is today known as Estonia by a sizeable burgher community of Baltic Germans, later Estonian was also influenced by standard German), and Russian, though it is not related to them genetically.", answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text. Question: What type of German was Estonian initially influenced by?
Answer:
Middle