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 | | 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 been another convenient excuse for denying public support to benefit the survival of the language. | | | 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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| | 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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| | English have stolen English |
| | It is rather the English speaking people who speak unknowingly borrowed French, German and hundreds of other languages to express themselves. | | | English has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the United Kingdom and later the United States. | | | The Brits had to borrow bits and pieces of their language all over the world to be able to express themselves, as they do now. |
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-10/21/content_384381.htm
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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. | | | This page is a nice page about language in Luxembourg. |
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http://web.uvic.ca/geru/472/472dialects.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. | | | The language is used less in television, but there appears to be some increase in recent years. |
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http://www.lowlands-l.net/talk/eng/lowsaxon.html
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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. | | | This web site introduces the ANS orthography; which is also known as Algemeyne Nedersaksische Schryvwyse or Algemeyne Neddersassische Schryvwys'. | | | 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. |
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http://www.ans.phileon.nl
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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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| | Mecklenburgisch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is the language of the Mecklenburg people in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in Germany. | | | Western parts of it are similar to some Low Saxon dialects. | | | It differs slightly from Pomeranian, which is spoken in the eastern parts of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and includes much more Slavic influence. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburgisch
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| | Yamada Language Center: Lower Saxon Language WWW guide |
| | This page is maintained by the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon. | | | Low Saxon ("Low German") organizations - part of the Lowlands-L website. | | | Guide to Offline Materials: Low Saxon ("Low German") - part of the Lowlands-L website. |
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http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/lowersaxon.html
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| | Old Low German (Old Saxon) language |
| | Saxons were quite numerous and that is why always needed to search for new lands to settle, as the economy was not productive enough to feed everyone in severe northern conditions. | | | But Old Saxons had nothing to do but to migrate though the sea. | | | The main peculiarities of the Old Saxon language were not nu,merous but still significant: e.g., nasal consonants were dropped before a vowel (like in fîf - five, German fünf). |
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http://members.tripod.com/babaev/tree/olg.html
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| | East Frisian Low Saxon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Based on the special history of Eastern Friesland there are influences and loans from French and the Dutch language which in parts of East Frisia for a long time was the language of the church. | | | Although an eastern dialect of the Frisian is spoken by about 2000 People in the three villages of Ramsloh, Strücklingen and Scharrel in the Saterland region outside Eastern Friesland, East Frisian Low Saxon is unrelated to Frisian. | | | East Frisia and Groningen (NL) used to be inhabitated by Frisians, so the current Low Saxon dialects build on Frisian substrate, which has led to a large amount of own vocabulary, grammatical and phonological structures which differ from other Low Saxon variants. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Frisian_Low_Saxon
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| | Hööftsiet - Wikipedia |
| | The pair are closely related languages (you could also say that they both form a single language) and are spoken by 12 - 15 million people on all continents except Antarctica. | | | The language is also closely related to other Low German languages (like Dutch), and to English; both of which developed from Old Low German. | | | Information for all non Low Saxon and East Low German native speakers |
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http://nds.wikipedia.org
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| | The Web Poetry Corner |
| | A few years ago he rediscovered his "paternal language" Low Saxon and, employing his own "Lowlandic" orthography, has been using it in poetry and short fiction. | | | A formal separation between the two came about with the establishment of the Netherlands as an independent country and with the absorption of the eastern lowlands region into the German state. | | | Low Saxon used to serve as an international lingua franca during the days of the medieval Hansa Trading League. |
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http://www.dreamagic.com/poetry/hahn.html
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| | Plattmasters Home Page - lower german for you. |
| | Why Platt is a language for its own | | | By many requests, I have translated the page Why Platt is a language for its own into english recently. | | | Look at the new page: What does "moinmoin" mean? |
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http://www.plattmaster.de/startenglish.htm
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| | Low Saxon |
| | Additional Information: Also known as Low German or Plattdeutsch. | | | A group of dialects spoken traditionally over much of northern Germany and in parts of the Netherlands and southern Denmark, as well as by some immigrant communities elsewhere (mostly North America). | | | Introductory essay in Dutch, English, German and Low Saxon. |
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http://www.canadiancontent.net/dir/Top/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Indo-European/Germanic/Low_Saxon
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| | Etymologie, Étymologie, Etymology - DE Deutschland, Allemagne, Germany - Dialekt, Umgangssprache |
| | The idea is to make dictionaries of slang, "dirty" words and other "bad language", as these are (often) very common, but usually difficult to find in common dictionaries, and it takes some courage to ask a native speaker about the meaning of such words. | | | Why are varieties of German called "high", "low", "upper", or "flat" (Hochdeutsch, Niederdeutsch, Oberdeutsch, Plattdeutsch)? | | | The following links will lead you to examples of Germanic dialects, many with good quality realaudio recordings. |
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http://www.etymologie.info/~e/d_/de-dialek.html
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| | Low Saxon |
| | Nu is de Welt Platt - International network for Low Saxon/Low German. | | | A Few Words about Low Saxon, or Low German - Essay giving a historical and linguistic profile, language map, and links. | | | Plat(t) Online - Directory of multilingual sites of Low-Germanic research and interest. |
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http://www.midlandsuk.com/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Indo-European/Germanic/Low_Saxon
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| | German Dialects on the Internet: Web Resources for German Language Teachers |
| | Few students of German language and culture sufficiently understand the linguistic diversity in Germany and other German-speaking regions. | | | The following web resources have been selected and organized as a teaching aid for high school teachers and college instructors. | | | Internet recordings and broadcasts in German dialects and related Continental West Germanic languages |
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http://library.uwsp.edu/aschmetz/German_Resources/WAFLT2000/German_dialects.htm
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| | Welcome to "Plat(t) Online"! (English) |
| | "Plat(t) Online" seeks to create a network of web pages in and/or about Low Saxon and to promote electronic use of and education about this language which is used by minorities in the eastern parts of the Netherlands, in the northern parts of Germany and in various East European, Inner Asian and overseas areas. | | | Which dialect(s) of Low Saxon do you use or describe? | | | When I have received information about your participation I will list your site on a special links page: |
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http://www.sassisch.net/rhahn/low-saxon/po-engl.htm
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| | Kattegat - Art History Online Reference and Guide |
| | It refers to the medieval navigation, where captains spoke of this area to be as narrow as a cat's hole, since there are several flats in the sea, which made navigation difficult. | | | The main islands of the Kattegat are Samsø, Læsø and Anholt, where the latter two, due to their dry summer climate, are referred to as the Danish desert belt. | | | The name Kattegat derives from the Dutch and low Saxon words Kat (cat) and Gat (hole). |
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http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Kattegatt
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| | Dialinks |
| | Italian Language (with a section in English "Italian Dialects") | | | Amis de Lenghe Furlane - Friends of the Friulan Language |
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http://members.tripod.com/%7Erjschellen/Dialinks.htm
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| | Niederdeutsche Sprache und Literatur |
| | A Network of Low Saxon (Low German) Sites bietet ebenfalls viele "Sieden up't Nett" | | | Carsten Schmidtke's Heimatsied bei der Oklahoma State University hat auch Links zum plattdeutschen Amerika | | | Lowlands-L: Low Saxon: Mailingliste für "Lowlands Languages and Cultures" |
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http://www.lb-oldenburg.de/externdb/virtuell/niederdt.htm
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| | (ZIP – With accompanying Perl programs) (in German) (Language models. | | | (Autumn Quarter 2003): Information retrieval for non-standardized languages. | | | (Autumn Quarter 2003): Information retrieval for languages that lack a fixed orthography. |
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http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/%7Estrunk/pubeng.html
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| | Taal in Nederlaand |
| | De noam "streektoal" is echter mislaaidend as vertoalen van t Engelse "regional language". |
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http://taal.phileon.nl/nds
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| | Free Online Dictionaries: Dutch, Limburgish, Frisian, Afrikaans & Low Saxon |
| | On this website you will soon find free online dictionaries: English, Dutch, German, Frisian, Limburgish etc. | | | Free Online Dictionaries: Dutch, Limburgish, Frisian, Afrikaans & Low Saxon |
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http://dictionaries.lowlands-l.net
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| | Over Friese Taal en Cultuur |
| | het onderzoekinstituut Centre for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG) voor het taaltheoretisch, -historisch en –sociologisch onderzoek. | | | Dit onderzoek maakt deel uit van de Graduate School for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences; | | | Stafleden van de afdeling Fries en Nedersaksisch participeren in: |
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http://odur.let.rug.nl/fries
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