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Plautdietsch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Epp, Reuben The Spelling of <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German and Plautdietsch, Reader's Press, 1996.
Epp, Reuben The Story of <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German and Plautdietsch, Reader's Press, 1996.
Plautdietsch, or Mennonite <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German, is a language spoken by the Mennonites who trace their roots to the <bb>>Lowb>bb>> Countries and north Germany, but who adopted an East <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German dialect while they were refugees in the Vistula delta area of Royal Prussia (later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), beginning in the early-to-mid 1500s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plautdietsch (463 words)



german

And by the 1940s after 20 years of <bb>>lowb>bb>> German immigration, German Americans for the most part spoke English and participated in mainstream politics and society; many had Anglicized their names to prevent a recurrence of the random persecution.
German involvement in the labor movement did not sit well with nativists, who, in the last decades of the 19th century, were again seeking support for anti-immigration laws.
Promoting German culture did not mean abandoning the new homeland; indeed, many German Americans believed that the national interests of Germany and the United States were complementary, so that support for the one would ultimately benefit the other.

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/2407/german.htm (13036 words)



The German language

The <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German band of this map shows less differentiation than the Middle and Upper bands, but Mecklenburg, West- and East Pomerania, Brandenburg and East Prussia certainly also have dialect variants of their own.
<bb>>Lowb>bb>> German (including Anglo-Saxon) was not affected by the soundshift at all.
The accompanying map of German dialects around 1930 (grayscale 251kb or in color 137KB- better viewed when printed out) illustrates these incongruences.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/wais/Language/language_germanlang101302.html (1084 words)



How Are Accents Caused? Antimoon Forum

The relationship between the two is not linear, with German on one end and Dutch on the other, with <bb>>Lowb>bb>> Saxon in between, but rather is triangular, with each about equally distant from and equally close to the other two, and each pair of them sharing some characteristics not shared by the third.
Actually, the distance between German and <bb>>Lowb>bb>> Saxon is about the same as that between German and Dutch, and if one tries to include <bb>>Lowb>bb>> Saxon within German, then one will have to include Dutch within German as well.
Now, I notice that the German government is trying hard to purge all traces of vocabulary that was specific to East Germany during the Communist period.

http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t587-15.htm (2072 words)



Germanic Languages

The West Germanic branch of the Germanic languages is spoken by the Germanic speaking people who occupied the southwestern part of the Germanic homeland.
East Norse is the eastern branch of the North Germanic languages used in Denmark and Sweden and their present and former colonies.
The East Germanic branch of the Germanic languages was spoken by the Germanic speaking people who, in the second through fourth centuries C. E., migrated first to the Danube and Black Sea areas from the Germanic homeland.

http://softrat.home.mindspring.com/germanic.html (3010 words)



the French vs. the Franks (page 2) Antimoon Forum

The Strasbourg text from 842 was probably also written in Germanic because it also dealt with Germany.
<bb>>Lowb>bb>> Saxon, East <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German and <bb>>Lowb>bb>> Franconian are classified together as <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German.
Dutch speakers are generally able to read German, and German speakers (who can speak English) are generally able to read Dutch, even if they find the spoken language very amusing.

http://www.antimoon.com/forum/posts/6655-2.htm (1307 words)



BBC NEWS Europe Berlusconi 'almost a German'

The prime minister had caused controversy by likening a heckling German European Parliament member to a Nazi concentration camp guard.
There has been no response so far from the German Government to the comments.
Mr Berlusconi told the mass circulation German newspaper Bild in an interview published on Monday that his reputation as a workaholic meant that he was considered "almost German" himself.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3122247.stm (330 words)



TIME.com: European-Arab Cartoon War Escalates -- Page 1

The principled stand of at least one of the papers looked a little suspicious: France-Soir, a once noble French daily that has been slowly dying as its circulation figures have collapsed, got more attention than it has for years by republishing all the cartoons.
A number of European papers, including Germany's Die Welt, Spain's El Periodico, the Netherlands' de Volkskrant and Italy's La Stampa, then responded by republishing the drawings in support of the principle of free expression.
Boycotts of Danish products spread throughout the Middle East, and death threats were issued against journalists.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1155844,00.html (735 words)



German Language - MSN Encarta

After vowels, k became ch (High German machen, <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German maken,”to make”); in all other cases k remained unchanged except in the extreme south of Germany, where it first became kch, and later ch.
As a result of the colonization of the Baltic regions by the Teutonic Knights, <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German spread throughout the lands east of the Elbe to Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, and Pomerania, as well as parts of Prussia.
A later change, found also in <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German, is that of the Germanic th to d (High German das, <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German dat,”that”).

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761567950/German_Language.html (639 words)



DIALECT DESCRIPTIONS

However, by the 18th century, High German had gained such force that the <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German began to be mixed with High German.
This dialect is not specific to a geographical area, as are all other <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German dialects, but rather it is associated with a religion.
The various <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German dialects in the area east of the Elbe River are of relatively recent origin.

http://www.iserv.net/~bsman/dialect_descriptions.htm (2856 words)



WEST PRUSSIA - LoveToKnow Article on WEST PRUSSIA

Among the Germans, who are most numerous in the north-east, <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German dialects are spoken, except in a Swabian colony round Kulmsee.
The greater part is occupied by the <bb>>lowb>bb>> Baltic plateau, intersected by a network of streams and lakes, and rising to the Turmberg (1086 ft.) near Danzig.
Roman Catholics number 51.4% and Protestants 46.6% of the population, and there are 16,000 Jews.

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/W/WE/WEST_PRUSSIA.htm (581 words)



<bb>>Lowb>bb>> German -

The Saterland Frisian is the only remnant of East Frisian language and is, outside East Frisia surrounded by <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German, as are the few remaining North Frisian varieties, and the <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German dialects of those regions have Frisian influences on account of Frisian substrates.
The table below shows the relationship between English and <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German consonants which were unaffected by the High German consonant shift and gives the modern German counterparts, which were affected by the sound shift.
<bb>>Lowb>bb>> German has commonality with the English language, the Scandinavian languages and Frisian in that it has not been influenced by the High Germanic consonant shift except for old /ð/ having shifted to /d/.

http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Low_German (1595 words)



BBC NEWS Europe Hunting Germany's linguistic gems

The competition comes at an interesting time for German scholars, with renewed controversy about changes to spelling rules introduced a few years ago, says the BBC's Ray Furlong.
Entries for a competition to unearth the most stunning example - organised by the German language council - have been flooding in.
German, for example, has a word to describe that niggling melody you just cannot get out of your head - "Ohrwurm", literally "earworm".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3943507.stm (243 words)



Nu is de Welt Platt!: <bb>>Lowb>bb>> Saxon / <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German Language and Culture in North America

In 1987 Cole Camp's Sesquicentennial Committee held monthly meetings and the older members of our community came forward to share their memories and <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German stories. This information was compiled into a three-hundred-sixty page history book called Hier Snackt Wi Plattdütsch,
The association also distributes other <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German Theater video tapes.
The expected enrollees will range from people with little or no knowledge of <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German who want to learn something about it to those who are more fluent but just want to participate to brush up on their skills.

http://www.sassisch.net/rhahn/low-saxon/platt-namerica.htm (1323 words)



<bb>>Lowb>bb>> Saxon (<bb>>Lowb>bb>> German)

However, its label “German” led to language policies that were an extension of German ones as they were before Lowlands Saxon came to be officially recognized in Germany.
German thus became the language of prestige, and the indigenous Saxon language soon came to be relegated to the status of a working-class and peasant language.
The label “German” was the least specific of these, including, besides the Saxon dialects, the medieval and early modern <bb>>Lowb>bb>> Frankish (“Dietsch”) dialects of Limburg, Holland, Brabant, Zeeland and Flanders as well as the various dialects of German proper.

http://www.lowlands-l.net/talk/eng/lowsaxon.html (2472 words)



Ethnologue report for Germany

Dialects: German with a heavy cryptolectal lexical influsion from Rotwelsch, Yiddish, Romani, and Hebrew.
Alternate names: Neddersassisch, Niedersaechsisch, Nedersaksisch, <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German, Plattdütsch, Nedderdütsch.
Schleswig-Holstein, on the coastal strip between the rivers Eider in the south and Wiedau in the north, and adjacent islands of Föhr, Amrum, Sylt, Norstrand, Pellworm, the ten islands of the Halligen group, and Helgoland.

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Germany (1147 words)



German language

The spoken German however, presents many dialects which belong to either the High German or to the <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German dialectal groups (note that '<bb>>Lowb>bb>> German' is not a negative term but just the name of a dialectal group).
Clear and ordered, the German language reflects the spirit of a nation of clear ideas and admirable organization in all the fields of life.
High German and <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German dialectal groups are different mainly in their system of sounds, particularly with respect to the consonants.

http://www.orbislingua.com/ead.htm (508 words)



NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Germanic languages

East Germanic languages were written in the Gothic alphabet developed by Bishop Ulfilas for his translation of the Bible into Gothic.
The Germanic languages form one of the branches of the Indo-European (IE) language family, spoken by the Germanic peoples who settled in northern Europe along the borders of the Roman Empire.
Historic printed German is frequently set in blackletter typefaces (e.g.

http://pedia.nodeworks.com/G/GE/GER/Germanic_languages (554 words)



Berlinerisch: Encyclopedia topic

The area of Berlin (Berlin: Capital of Germany located in eastern Germany) was one of the first to abandon East <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German (East <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German: east <bb>>lowb>bb>> german dialects are spoken in north eastern parts of germany as well as by minorities...
Only recently has this new dialect expanded into the surroundings which until then used East <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German (East <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German: east <bb>>lowb>bb>> german dialects are spoken in north eastern parts of germany as well as by minorities...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) with definite Middle German roots but a <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German (<bb>>Lowb>bb>> German: A German dialect spoken in northern Germany) substratum (substratum: Any stratum lying underneath another) apparently formed.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/berlinerisch (255 words)



German language and Germany by ALS International

German colonial establishments in Africa (German Southwest Africa [now Namibia] and Cameroon), the islands of the Western Pacific, and China (the Shandung Peninsula) were lost by 1919, following the German defeat in World War I. Hitler’s defeat in World War II put paid to a transitory military occupation of North Africa.
German is also spoken in dialect form throughout Luxembourg and by much of the population of the regions of eastern France formerly known as Alsace and Lorraine.
But a clear break is apparent along the line of demarcation where the upland plateau of southern Germany falls away to the north-German plain.

http://www.alsintl.com/languages/german.htm (1482 words)



Shibles-Publications on Phonetics

"Blame and the German Subjunctive." Grazer Linguistische Studien 31: 121-128.
"How German Vocabulary Pictures Emotion." British J. of Language Teaching 27, no. 3: 137-141.
"Comparative Phonetics of German: Realphonetik." Wirkendes Wort 45, no. 1 (1995): 167-198.

http://facstaff.uww.edu/shiblesw/phonetic.html (667 words)



East Pomeranian -

East Pomeranian (Ostpommersch) is a East <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German dialect that is or used to be spoken in Northern Poland.
Together with West <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German, East <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German forms <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German.
East Pomeranian is spoken in Brazil mainly nowadays.

http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/East_Pomeranian (105 words)



German Genealogy: Dialects

North Frisian is spoken on the Hallig islands and the neighboring strip of mainland on the western coast of southern Jutland and Schleswig, with elements of Danish and <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German mixed in.
This list is an attempt to bring a little light into the jungle of German dialects.
In the east it has extended its dialectal range since the German settlement of Anterior Pomerania and Rügen. That is why it is also called Mecklenburgish-Anterior Pomeranian.

http://www.genealogienetz.de/misc/dialect-e.html (1405 words)



Icyshard's (Never)Boring Blog of Banalities: Word of the Day

German regional (<bb>>Lowb>bb>> German: East Friesland) Nippflood, Nipptide, German Nippflut (1827 or earlier), Nipptide, Swedish nipflod (1881), niptid (1887), Danish nipflod (1880 or earlier), niptid (1756 or earlier; also in form neptid), all late borrowings, prob.
Designating or relating to a tide occurring just after the first or third quarters of the moon, when the high-water level is lowest and there is least difference between high- and <bb>>lowb>bb>>-water levels; opposed to SPRING TIDE.
Connections with the Germanic bases of NIP v.1 and NEB n.

http://www.icyshard.com/archives/2004/06/word_of_the_day (289 words)



<bb>>Lowb>bb>> Saxon - Wiktionary

A language or group of related dialects of <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German, spoken in northern Germany and parts of the Netherlands and Denmark
This page was last modified 05:08, 18 February 2006.
AOL users can access Wiktionary here after accepting the CACERT certificate.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Low_saxon (49 words)



<bb>>Lowb>bb>> German Dictionary; Author

A third generation Canadian, he was born in 1915, Altona, Manitoba, in the West Reserve granted by the Canadian government to the Mennonites in southern Manitoba in 1875.
He grew up on the family farm two miles east of Gretna, Manitoba, and is a product of the Mennonite educational traditions of the 1920s and 1930s.

http://www.mennolink.org/doc/lg/author.html (126 words)



Swiss German - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As such, even though the Alemannic dialects belong to High German, their vowels are closer to <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German than other High German dialects or standard German.
Swiss German is intelligible to speakers of other Alemannic dialects, but usually not intelligible to speakers of Standard German (which includes French- or Italian-speaking Swiss who learn Standard German at school).
Swiss German (Schweizerdeutsch, Schwyzerdütsch, Schwiizerdütsch, Schwyzertütsch, Schwizertitsch) is any of the Alemannic dialects spoken in Switzerland.

http://www.pineville.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Swiss_German (126 words)



ninemsn Encarta - German Language

The diversity of the German dialects (some of which are so diverse they are indeed languages) means that German speakers are often bilingual in their local dialect and Standard German, which acts as a lingua franca.
<bb>>Lowb>bb>> German, Plattdeutsch or <bb>>Lowb>bb>> Saxon, is spoken in the north, in a narrow fringe along the border between the Netherlands and Germany, and in the northern lowlands as far east and north-east as the River Elbe, including the cities of Münster, Kassel, Bremen, Hanover, Hamburg, and Magdeburg.
This is not the first spelling reform the German language has seen; in 1901 the first official reform was implemented in a bid to standardize the written language.

http://au.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761567950/German_Language.html (126 words)



DIALECT DESCRIPTIONS

This dialect is not specific to a geographical area, as are all other <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German dialects, but rather it is associated with a religion.
However, by the 18th century, High German had gained such force that the <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German began to be mixed with High German.
Their <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German dialect tends to use "i" instead of "ie":tid (tied, time) and min (mien, mine), as well as the 'k' sound for "ch", as in the "-ken" diminutive ending in betken (beten, little bit).

http://www.iserv.net/~bsman/dialect_descriptions.htm (2856 words)



<bb>>Lowb>bb>> German language

<bb>>Lowb>bb>> German is also sometimes used to refer to any German dialect which differs from the official German language, but this is not linguistic use.
The other branches of West Germanic (besides <bb>>Lowb>bb>> German and High German) are Frisian and English.
The term "<bb>>Lowb>bb>> German" is often restricted to <bb>>Lowb>bb>> Saxon, one of its three main branches, or extended to all of West Germanic except for High German.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/low_german_language (2856 words)

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