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| | Plautdietsch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Plautdietsch, or Mennonite Low German, is a language spoken by the Mennonites who trace their roots to the Low Countries and north Germany, but who adopted an East Low 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. | | | The Lord's Prayer in a Low Germanic language (Dutch) and two Low Germanic dialects, Plaudietsch and Low German. | | | Epp, Reuben The Spelling of Low German and Plautdietsch, Reader's Press, 1996. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plautdietsch
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| | ninemsn Encarta - German Language |
| | German Language, language of the German people and other peoples akin to or at one time politically united with the Germans. | | | Low German consists of (1) Frisian, spoken in the Netherlands, the North Sea coast of Germany, and the Frisian Islands; (2) Low Saxon (often called Low German or Plattdeutsch), spoken in the eastern Netherlands (where it is called Nedersaksisch) and northern Germany. | | | 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. |
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http://au.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761567950/German_Language.html
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| | 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. | | | Gothic was the East Germanic language of the Germanic speaking people who migrated from southern Scania (southern Sweden) to the Ukraine. | | | East Norse is the eastern branch of the North Germanic languages used in Denmark and Sweden and their present and former colonies. |
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http://softrat.home.mindspring.com/germanic.html
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| | Low German - |
| | Low German (also called Plattdeutsch, Plattdüütsch or Low Saxon) is a name for the regional language varieties of the Low Germanic languages spoken mainly in northern Germany, and eastern Netherlands. | | | The Saterland Frisian is the only remnant of East Frisian language and is, outside East Frisia surrounded by Low German, as are the few remaining North Frisian varieties, and the Low German dialects of those regions have Frisian influences on account of Frisian substrates. | | | Low 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/. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Low_German
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| | 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 Low 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 Low Saxon is about the same as that between German and Dutch, and if one tries to include Low Saxon within German, then one will have to include Dutch within German as well. | | | He was expecting them to voluntarily support Germany against Russia; Also, an attempt by a few Swiss in the early 1970's to get the Swiss government to officially declare 'Schweitzerdeutsch' a language separate from German was a flop.<< |
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http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t587-15.htm
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| | The German language |
| | Luther standardized German spelling according to an artificial scheme of his own invention (something which never happened to English, which is why we have such odd and illogical spelling). | | | I asked Cameron Sawyer about the origin of High German and its relationship to Bühnbenspracge, stage language. | | | The Low 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. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/group/wais/Language/language_germanlang101302.html
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| | Plattysk - Plattdeutsch - Low German |
| | The manner in which a Low German speaker thinks and expresses himself/herself is well suited to promoting expressive clarity and syntactic simplicity in the use of High German. | | | That High German became the national language was the cause of a string of circumstances, not least that Luther wrote his Bible translation in High German. | | | Therefore, it is the task of all schools of the state to maintain the Low German language, if only for the purpose of enabling our youth to read the works of the great Low German writers and to experience their world. |
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http://www.rostra.dk/platt/platspro.htm
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| | Low Saxon (Low German) |
| | However, this has come to be used for German dialects that are spoken in the German state of Saxony (Sachsen), originally a non-Saxon state that was given this name because of 15th- and 16th-century dynastic maneuvers. | | | 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. |
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http://www.lowlands-l.net/talk/eng/lowsaxon.html
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| | German Language - MSN Encarta |
| | As a result of the colonization of the Baltic regions by the Teutonic Knights, Low German spread throughout the lands east of the Elbe to Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, and Pomerania, as well as parts of Prussia. | | | German Language, language of the German people and other peoples akin to or at one time politically united with the Germans. | | | A later change, found also in Low German, is that of the Germanic th to d (High German das, Low German dat,”that”). |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761567950/German_Language.html
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| | the French vs. the Franks (page 2) Antimoon Forum |
| | Low Saxon, East Low German and Low Franconian are classified together as Low 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. | | | there is a old text "serment de Strasbourg", which is considered to be the first official text to have been written in "french" (old proto-french) and in germanic language, and not in latin. |
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http://www.antimoon.com/forum/posts/6655-2.htm
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| | Low Saxon (Low 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 Low Frankish (“Dietsch”) dialects of Limburg, Holland, Brabant, Zeeland and Flanders as well as the various dialects of German proper. |
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http://www.lowlands-l.net/talk/eng/lowsaxon.html
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| | Low Saxon (Low 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. | | | Lowlands Saxon was officially recognized as a “regional language” in the Eastern Netherlands (1997) and in Northern Germany (1999) within the framework of the European Language Charter. |
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http://www.lowlands-l.net/talk/eng/lowsaxon.html
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| | Dialects |
| | This page contains information about German Language in Canada and how the Government is providing funding. | | | This is a German site about the Yiddish language and its historical and cultural background. | | | The Low German dialects described are: Low Franconian and Low Saxon. |
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http://web.uvic.ca/geru/472/472dialects.htm
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| | ANS: a general orthography for the Low Saxon language |
| | Much of this is due to the fact that for centuries it has been overshadowed and suppressed by Dutch and German respectively and that there has been practically no governmental support for it. | | | Each writer tries to write his or her home dialect, supposedly 'phonetically', using Dutch or German spelling conventions, many of which are unsuitable for this language. | | | In Germany, Low Saxon tends to be known as 'Low German' ('Plattdeutsch' or 'Niederdeutsch'), while in the Netherlands it tends to be known as 'Low Saxon' (Nedersaksisch). |
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http://www.ans.phileon.nl
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| | ANS: a general orthography for the Low Saxon language |
| | Much of this is due to the fact that for centuries it has been overshadowed and suppressed by Dutch and German respectively and that there has been practically no governmental support for it. | | | Each writer tries to write his or her home dialect, supposedly 'phonetically', using Dutch or German spelling conventions, many of which are unsuitable for this language. | | | In Germany, Low Saxon tends to be known as 'Low German' ('Plattdeutsch' or 'Niederdeutsch'), while in the Netherlands it tends to be known as 'Low Saxon' (Nedersaksisch). |
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http://ans.phileon.nl
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| | THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE -- OLD ENGLISH NOTES: (ANGLO-SAXON) |
| | Yiddish is another Western Germanic language, and it was once spoken by millions of Jews in Europe. | | | This language developed out of German but was heavily influenced by Hebrew and later by several Slavic languages. | | | Low Saxon has recently been granted some official recognition in both the Netherlands and Germany, but its use as a written language is hampered by the lack of a widely accepted standard orthography and the existence of many dialects (which form an almost continuous spectrum between Standard Dutch and Standard German). |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Column/1122/OEHIST.htm
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| | Low Franconian language: Information From Answers.com |
| | In Germany it is common to consider the Limburgian dialects as Low Franconian; in The Netherlands and Belgium however they are seen as Middle German or High German. | | | Together with Low Saxon and East Low German, these form the Low Germanic family of languages. | | | Low Franconian is any of several West Germanic languages spoken in The Netherlands, northern Belgium, and South Africa. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/low-franconian-language
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| | UWeek Vol.17, No.6 November 4, 1999 |
| | To Hahn, the language has become a source of pride in the culture of the region he grew up in, before what he calls "Germanization." He felt its disfavor and official neglect was a symbol of repression. | | | Hahn says his poetry, both in Low Saxon and English, is a way of unleashing a part of his personality that is not expressed in his job, where he must be organized and keep others organized. | | | In North German cities, people who speak Low Saxon have an image that U.S. residents would associate with the characters in "The Dukes of Hazzard" or "The Beverly Hillbillies." In that sense, there's a parallel with what English-speakers might think of folks who speak Appalachian, Hahn suggests. |
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http://depts.washington.edu/~uweek/archives/1999.11.NOV_04/article27.html
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| | BBC NEWS Europe Hunting Germany's linguistic gems |
| | Entries for a competition to unearth the most stunning example - organised by the German language council - have been flooding in. | | | The search for the most beautiful word in the German language is almost over. | | | 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. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3943507.stm
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| | Language |
| | This label has been symbolically convenient in denying Low Saxon separate language status by creating the impression that it is a dialect group contained within German, aided by the fact that its speakers in Germany consider themselves ethnic Germans. | | | This has not been helping to improve the image of the language, which is often unfairly associated with lack of education and urbaneness, being regarded as a "peasants' language" by many Germans and Netherlanders. | | | Low Saxon used to be the language of the medieval Hanseatic (Hansa) Trading League that began in the mid-13th century as a protective alliance of several port cities along the shores of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. |
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http://web.quipo.it/minola/plattdeutsch/language.htm
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| | LOW GERMAN - PLATT DÜÜTSCH - PLATT DÜTSCH - PLATTDEUTSCH |
| | People don't realize that when they're speaking English, there are indirectly speaking a form of Low German. | | | Low German was for centuries quite prominent, becoming the international trading language of the Hanseatic League, in the 11th to 15th centuries. | | | LOW GERMAN is the direct descendant of an ancient European language, known as OLD SAXON. |
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http://www.iserv.net/~bsman/low_german_description_.htm
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| | German Life: Language: Plattdeutsch - Niederdeutsch - Low German@ HighBeam Research |
| | Nothing could be less fitting a characterization for the northern German dialects whose proud ancestry includes Sassisch, the medieval lingua franca used over large portions of northern Europe, and Old Saxon, a close sister of the Anglo-Saxon language that developed into modern English. | | | German Life: Language: Plattdeutsch - Niederdeutsch - Low German@ HighBeam Research | | | It is only for lack of a better English translation for Niederdeutsch, the German name for those dialects, that the negative connotations arise. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:29306557&refid=holomed_1
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| | German language |
| | Nowadays, German is native language of 98 million people in the world, who not only live in the countries where it is official language (such as Germany and Austria). | | | The spoken German however, presents many dialects which belong to either the High German or to the Low German dialectal groups (note that 'Low 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. |
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http://www.orbislingua.com/ead.htm
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| | A few words about Low Saxon (Low German) |
| | This label has been symbolically convenient in denying Low Saxon separate language status by creating the impression that it is a dialect group contained within German, aided by the fact that its speakers in Germany consider themselves ethnic Germans. | | | Low Saxon is used as a minority language in the northern parts of Germany and in the eastern parts of the Netherlands. | | | Low Saxon used to be the language of the medieval Hanseatic (Hansa) Trading League that began in the mid-13th century as a protective alliance of several port cities along the shores of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. |
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http://www.sassisch.net/rhahn/low-saxon/lowsax-engl.htm
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