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| | UWeek Vol.17, No.6 November 4, 1999 |
 | | 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. | | | He also must be sensitive, tactful and reassuring to the many members of the public who contact his departments for one thing or another. |
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http://depts.washington.edu/~uweek/archives/1999.11.NOV_04/article27.html
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| | Ethnologue report for Paraguay |
| | Mataguayo languages in Paraguay are less similar than Mascoi languages in Paraguay (Fasold 1984). | | | The number of languages listed for Paraguay is 22. | | | [See also SIL publications on the languages of Paraguay.] |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Paraguay
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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. | | | 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://www.sassisch.net/rhahn/low-saxon/lowsax-engl.htm
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| | English language |
| | However, the excessive use of Latinate words is often a sign of either pretentiousness (as in the stereotypical policeman's talk of "apprehending the suspect") or obfuscation (as in a military document which says "neutralize" when it means "kill"). | | | Modern scholarship considers most of this story to be legendary and politically motivated. | | | Although English is not an official language of the United States federal government, it is for 27 of the 50 state governments (Hawaii, Louisiana, and New Mexico have also designated Hawaiian, French, and Spanish as official languages in conjunction with English, respectively). |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/E/English-language.htm
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| | ENGLISH LANGUAGE - LoveToKnow Article on ENGLISH LANGUAGE |
| | We know, however, that they continued to exist as local and popular forms of speech, as well from occasional specimens and from the fact that they exist still as from the statements of writers during the interval. | | | This became in turn the model for his own writings, and by-and-by, if he made any pretensions to education, of his own speech. | | | The Conquest established in England a foreign court, a foreign aristocracy and a foreign hierarchy.I The French language, in its Norman dialect, became the only polite medium Of intercourse. |
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http://58.1911encyclopedia.org/E/EN/ENGLISH_LANGUAGE.htm
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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. | | | Once there were also German speaking areas in what is now Poland, the Czech Republic and even in the Russian exclave Kaliningrad (between Poland, Lithuania and the Baltic) but after World War II most of the ethnic Germans were deported to present-day Germany. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Column/1122/OEHIST.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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| | Saxon Math 76 |
| | The Saxon people or Saxons were a large and powerful Germanic people located in what is now northwestern Germany and a small section of the eastern Netherlands. | | | It is important to note that the historic Saxons did not inhabit the modern German federal state called Saxony. | | | We need not doubt that the Angli and the Saxons were different nations originally; but from the evidence it seems likely that they had practically coalesced in very early times, perhaps even before the invasion. |
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http://www.blownspeakers.com/pages3/78/saxon-math-76.html
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| | First Europe Tutorial - Latin and Vernaculars |
| | Latin became the language of the Western Church, focused on Rome, beginning well before the emergence of Christianity as the dominant religion in the Roman world. | | | This was particularly true for the spoken language of the uneducated, which already in ancient times incorporated terms derived from Greek, Celtic and later from Germanic languages. | | | As in France, the ascendancy of one group over the other began much later, in the fourteenth century in France and in the sixteenth in Germany. |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/firsteuro/lang.html
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| | Low Saxon language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In Germany it is considered, together with East Low German as part of a language called Plattdüütsch. | | | This page was last modified 07:50, 9 October 2005. | | | Low Saxon was once much more widespread than today, being used as a lingua franca throughout the Baltic Sea region, under the influence of the Hanseatic League. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Saxon_language
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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://ans.phileon.nl
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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. | | | In northern Germany at that time, it was more broadly spoken than was any form of High German. |
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http://www.iserv.net/~bsman/low_german_description_.htm
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| | GeoNative - Nedersaksisch - Low Saxon - Low German |
| | The numbers of people with Low Saxon proficiency is estimated to be 10 million in Germany. | | | Until recently, the official line was that the Low Saxon dialects of Germany were German ones and that the ones used in the Netherlands were Dutch dialects, and they had a low social status. | | | The numbers of people with Low Saxon proficiency is estimated to be between 1.5 and 2 million in the Netherlands. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/platt.html
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| | Manuscript |
| | This new language resembled a mix of modern English and modern German. | | | The Saxons dominated West Germany before their move to the British Isles, while the Jutes were one of the Low German tribes to join their neighbors in the migration to Britain. | | | The Anglo-Saxon period began in the middle fifth century with the "migration" of three Germanic tribes from northern Germany to the island of Britain. |
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http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projf20001b/scroll2.htm
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| | The Anglo-Saxons |
| | As far as I can gather, the writer is trying to figure out where the Normans really landed, by comparing archives, tapestries, and other historical documents with the lay of the land. | | | Archaeological evidence also reveals a gradual infiltration of Germanic peoples into England along the rivers of east central England, then a low-lying bayou country that would have been impossible to police. | | | The settlers brought with them, in their heads, an extensive body of lore encoded in alliterative verse, including versified laws as well as historical and legendary narratives. |
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http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Medieval_Studies/russom/anglos.html
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| | Northern Low Saxon language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The other subdialects are East Frisian Low Saxon, Emslänner Platt, Heidjerisch, a subdialect spoken East of Bremen and a subdialect in Bremen and West of Bremen. | | | It is considered to be "Standard Low Saxon" within Germany because it is spoken and understood in a huge central area including most of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. | | | As such, it covers a great part of the Low Saxon-speaking areas of northern Germany, with the exception of the border regions where Eastphalian and Westphalian are spoken. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Low_Saxon_language
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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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| | Yamada Language Center: Lower Saxon Mailing Lists |
| | This page is maintained by the Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon. | | | Northern Low Saxon (Low German, Germany) in the Lowlands Orthography and in the Fehrs Guild Orthography. | | | LOWLANDS-L is an automated worldwide electronic mail list for those who are interested in the languages and cultures of the lowlands adjacent to the coast of the North Sea and of Baltic Sea. |
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http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/lists/lowersaxon.html
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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. | | | This difference is caused by a difference in definition: the linguists of the Low Countries define a Low German dialect as one that has only taken part in the fourth phase of the High German consonant shift. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/low-franconian-language
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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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| | Ethnologue 14 report for language code:SXN |
| | Officially recognized as a regional (separate) language in 8 states of Germany and in the northeastern provinces of the Netherlands. | | | Its modern forms have been largely suppressed until recently, and have received much German, Dutch, or Frisian influence, depending on the area. | | | The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000). |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SXN
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| | UWRF Modlang - Peter Johansson |
| | He received his PhD in 1977 in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California-Santa Barbara. | | | Peter was a student at the University of Freiburg, Germany from 1968-1970 through the U Mass Atlantic Studies Program. | | | Peter's professional interests are in German language and literature. |
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http://www.uwrf.edu/modlang/faculty/pjohansson.html
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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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| | Hamburgisch |
| | The term Hamburgisch is also used for Missingsch[?], a special dialect of high german with low german grammar and loanwords. | | | Hamburgisch is a Low Saxon dialect and a variant of Northern Low Saxon language spoken in Hamburg, in Germany. | | | Quite typical most subdialects of the hamburgian dialect is the use of eu (spoken oi) for the vowel ö, e.g. |
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http://www.city-search.org/ha/hamburgisch.html
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| | Drag coefficient |
| | This is done to improve fuel efficiency at highway speeds where aerodynamic effects represent a substantial fraction of energy needed to keep the car moving. | | | is also a factor in sports car design where low drag coupled with lift results in a car which can stability and high top speeds. | | | The typical modern automobile achieves a drag of between 0.30 and 0.35. |
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http://www.freeglossary.com/Drag_coefficient
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| | Vegetarian Phrases in World Languages - Western Europe/English |
| | a (now finally officially recognized) minority language in the northern half of Germany and the eastern parts of the Netherlands. | | | Vegetarian Phrases in World Languages - Western Europe/English | | | Send more phrases - fill in the form! |
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http://www.ivu.org/phrases/westeuro.html
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