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	Dutch language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The dialects of the West Germanic dialect continuum can be divided according to the region's historical tribes (Frisian, Saxon, Franconian, Bavarian, Swabian, etc.) and according to the extent of their participation in the High German consonant shift (Low Saxon-Low Franconian against High German languages).
		In addition to the many dialects of the Dutch language many provinces and larger cities have their own accents, which sometimes are also called dialects.
		Indeed the Low Franconian dialects and languages are morphologically closer to the original form of Western Germanic than the High German from which standard German is derived.
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		The West Germanic dialects can be divided according to tribe (see Germanic tribes), and according to the extent of their participation in the High German consonant shift (Low Germanic against High Germanic).
		The present Dutch standard language is practically completely based on Low Franconian (sometimes called Old Dutch) dialects spoken in the Low Countries which on its term derived from Old Frankish, the language of the Ancient Franks.
		The Pennsylvania Dutch language itself is closely related to High German especially its Franconian dialects spoken in the southwest of Germany.
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	Dutch language - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The West Germanic dialects can be divided according to tribe (Frisian, Saxon, Franconian, Bavarian and Swabian), and according to the extent of their participation in the High German consonant shift (Low German against High German).
		The present Dutch standard language is largely derived from Low Franconian dialects spoken in the Low Countries that must have reached a separate identity no later than about AD 700.
		There is in fact a dialect continuum which blurs any clear boundary between Dutch and Low German, and the Low Franconian rural dialects of the Lower Rhine are much closer to Hollandic than to standard German.
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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Low Saxon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The distinction between Low Saxon, East Low German and Low Franconian (on one side) or High German (on the other side) is not precisely defined; there are several clines that vary smoothly from one dialect to another.
		However, most Low Saxon dialects are thought to be descended from, or to have been strongly influenced by, Old Saxon.
		Kollumerlands (a Frisian/Low Saxon mixture dialect in Groningen and Fryslân)
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Low_Saxon (1114 words)

	Everything about Belgium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The term "German" is used for the dialects of Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland (that is, outside the French-, Italian-, and Romansch-speaking areas) and some areas in the surrounding countries, as well as for several colonies and other ethnic concentrations founded by German-speaking people (for example German in the United States).
		Low Franconian includes Dutch and Afrikaans, spoken primarily in the Netherlands, Belgium and South Africa; Plattdüütsch includes dialects spoken primarily in the German Lowlands and in the eastern Netherlands.
		The dialects of German which are or were primarily spoken in colonies founded by German speaking people resemble the dialects of the regions the founders came from (for example Pennsylvania German resembles dialects of the Palatinate, or Hutterite German resembles dialects of Carinthia).
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