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	Low Saxon language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Low Saxon (in Low Saxon, Nedersaksisch, Neddersassisch) is any of a variety of Low German ("Nedderdüütsch" in Low Saxon) dialects spoken in northern Germany and the Netherlands.
		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.
		Kollumerlands (a Frisian/Low Saxon mixture dialect in Groningen and Fryslân)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Low_Saxon_language (821 words)

	Low German language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Low German was the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League.
		The term "Low German" is often restricted to Low Saxon, one of its three main branches, or extended to all of West Germanic except for High German.
		Low German is distinguished from High German principally in that the latter underwent a consonant shift in the 700s and 800s.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Low_German (472 words)

	Northern Low Saxon language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Northern Low Saxon (in Low Saxon, Noordneddersassisch) is a Low Saxon dialect.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Low_Saxon_language (360 words)

	A few words about Low Saxon (Low German) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		Low Saxon lost its influence with the decline of the Hanseatic League in the late 16th century or in the early 17th century.
	www.sassisch.net /rhahn/low-saxon/lowsax-engl.htm (1610 words)

	Saxon
		Northern Low Saxon language Northern Low Saxon (in Low Saxon, Nordneddersassisch or Platt) is a Low Saxon dialect.
		Saxon, South Carolina Saxon is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 3,707.
		Saxon, Wisconsin Saxon is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 350.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/saxon.html (487 words)

	Low
		Low (atmospheric) A low, or a low pressure area, is a region of rising atmospheric air.
		Low Moor, Virginia Low Moor is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 367.
		Supersonic Low Altitude Missile The Supersonic Low Altitude Missile or SLAM (not to be confused with the U.S. Navy's cur...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/low.html (1500 words)

	Low Saxon language Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Low Saxon (in Low Saxon, Plattdüütsch, Nedderdüütsch or Neddersassisch) is any of a variety of Low German dialects spoken in northern Germany and the Netherlands.
		The distinction between Low Saxon 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.
		It served as a standard language in many regions of northern Germany until it was replaced for that purpose by Standard German (a High German dialect) during the unification of Germany under Otto von Bismarck in 1871.
	viridian.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/low_saxon_language.html (502 words)

	Language in the Netherlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Linguistically speaking, Low Saxon in the Netherlands is related to Low Saxon/Low German in Northern Germany which is recognized in most German states in accordance with the framework of Part III of the European Charter.
		The area in which Low Saxon is spoken in the Netherlands comprises the provinces Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, the municipalities Eastern and Western Stellingwerf in Southeastern Fryslân and the districts Achterhoek and Veluwe in the province of Gelderland.
		Low Saxon is not used in judicial arenas, but its use by defendants or witnesses is not prohibited.
	taal.phileon.nl /eng/lowsaxon.php (700 words)

	Low Saxon (Low German) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Before Lowlands Saxon came to be well and truly overshadowed and suppressed by German, many of its speakers still referred to it as “Saxon” (sassysch, etc.) or “Low(lands) Saxon” (nedersassysch, etc.), some as late as in the 19th and early 20th century.
		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.
	www.lowlands-l.net /talk/eng/lowsaxon.html (2472 words)

	Low Saxon language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The distinction between Low Saxon and Low Franconian (on one side) or High German (on the other side) isn't precisely defined; there are several clines[?] that vary smoothly from one dialect to another.
		Low Saxon was once much more widespread than today, being used as a lingua franca throughout the Baltic region, under the influence of the Hanseatic League.
		It served as a standard language[?] in many regions of northern Germany until it was replaced for that purpose by Standard German (a High German dialect) during the unification of Germany under Otto von Bismarck in 1870.
	www.city-search.org /lo/low-saxon-language.html (765 words)

	Low German language Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Low German (in Low German, Nedderdüütsch) is any of a variety of West Germanic languages spoken in northern Germany and the Netherlands.
		The term "Low German" is often restricted to Low Saxon, one of its two main branches, or extended to all of West Germanic except for High German.
		The northern dialects of Low German (Low Saxon and Dutch) can also be classified together with English and Frisian as the North Sea Germanic or Ingvaeonic languages.
	viridian.sferahost.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/low_german_language.html (310 words)

	LOW GERMAN - PLATT DÜÜTSCH - PLATT DÜTSCH - PLATTDEUTSCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LOW GERMAN is the direct descendant of an ancient European language, known as OLD SAXON.
		The Saxons were among those tribes in that area that had broken off, along about 2,000 B.C. from the very ancient Indo-European settlers, bringing just the Old Germanic part of the overall primitive Indo- European tongue to northern Europe.
		Low German was for centuries quite prominent, becoming the international trading language of the Hanseatic League, in the 11th to 15th centuries.
	www.iserv.net /~bsman/low_german_description_.htm (312 words)

	Low Saxon language - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Plattdüütsch is the name for both the Low Saxon and the East Low German language.
		East Veluws (a Dutch/Low Saxon mixture dialect spoken in Gelderland)
		Laot worden dienen willen zoas in den himmel,
	www.free-definition.com /Low-Saxon.html (867 words)

	standard low saxon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Northern Low Saxon (in Low Saxon, Nordneddersassisch or Platt) is a Low Saxon dialect.
		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,Westphalian, Mecklenburgisch and Pomeranian are spoken.
		It is formed without a prefix, as in English, Danish, Swedish, Norse and Frisian, but unlike German and Dutch and the Southern Low Saxon Language:
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Standard_Low_Saxon (349 words)

	GeoNative - Nedersaksisch - Low Saxon - Low German
		Low Saxon (Low German) is a Germanic language that is the direct descendant of the Old Saxon language.
		It is the indigenous language of Northern Germany and the eastern parts of the Netherlands.
		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.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/platt.html (464 words)

	Diminutive - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the northern Low Saxon the diminutive is used as seldom as in the scandinavic languages, that means nearly never.
		The East Frisian Dialect of the Low Saxon language uses quite frequently the diminuitive -je and -tje, as well as Dutch, e.g.
		In the southern parts of the Low Saxon area and in Flamish the diminutive -ke, -ken is corresponding (Manneke, manneken for little man).
	www.free-definition.com /Diminutive.html (702 words)

	lower saxon: language or local dialect? Thoughts of Plattmaster about the status of lower saxon
		It was a long discussion, whether Low Saxon (Plattdüütsch, Platt, Nedersassisch or Nedersaksisch, in German Plattdeutsch or Niedersächsisch) is a language for its own or only a local dialect.
		Plattdüütsch (Low Saxon) was the lingua franca of the Hanse.
		Though many by number, the Low Saxon dialects are so similar, that people fo Mecklenburg, Holstein, East Frisia and Groningen - a distance of far more than 500 km - can easily speak their dialect and understand each other.
	www.plattmaster.de /language.htm (1139 words)

	Ethnologue report for Germany
		Dialects: Not intelligible with Western Frisian of the Netherlands or Northern Frisian (E. Matteson SIL 1978) or Saterfriesisch (Wolbert Smidt 2001).
		Low Saxon varieties listed as separate entries in the Netherlands, where they have official status.
		Southwestern dialect in southern Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace (France), Midwestern dialect in central Germany and parts of the former Czechoslovakia, Northwestern dialect is northern Germany and the Netherlands.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Germany (1147 words)

	Dutch language
		Together with Low Saxon, Dutch formes the Low German language group.
		Low Saxon and other Low German languages are also very closely related to Dutch and English.
		However, note that this list does also include some words of which the etymology is uncertain, and that some may have been derived from Low Saxon equivalents instead or as well.
	www.wordlookup.net /du/dutch-language.html (1311 words)

	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 native area is between the IJsselmeer and north west Poland, covering parts of the Netherlands, southern Denmark, northern Germany and what is now western Poland.
		The language is also closely related to other Low German languages (like Dutch), and to English; both of which developed from Old Low German.
	nds.wikipedia.org (517 words)

	ANS: a general orthography for the Low Saxon language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		ANS is a General Low Saxon Orthography for all Low Saxon varieties of the world, including those in the Netherlands and in Germany.
		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).
		German-based spelling conventions for Low Saxon are perceived as foreign in the Netherlands, while Dutch-based spelling conventions are perceived similarly on the German side of the border.
	www.ans.phileon.nl (539 words)

	Ethnologue: Germany
		Not intelligible with Western Frisian of the Netherlands or Northern Frisian (E. Matteson SIL 1978).
		Speakers are multilingual in Standard and Low German and often in English, but fluency is limited.
		Low German refers to varieties in the lower Rhine region, below a line from Aachen to Wittenberg, which did not experience the second consonantal shift of the 8th and 9th centuries (J. Thiessen, U. of Winnipeg 1976).
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Germ.html (1115 words)

	Low Saxon language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Low Saxon (in Low Saxon, Nedersaksisch, Neddersassisch, "Plattdüütsch" or "Nedderdüütsch") is any of a variety of Low German dialects spoken in northern Germany and the Netherlands.
		Although often considered a variation of German, in many respects it is more like Dutch, which is based on closely related Low Franconian dialects.
		2 The Lord's Prayer in Northern Low Saxon
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/low_saxon_language (644 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Language (Lor-Luk) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Low German is the group of languages of Northern Germany and the Netherlands, that includes Friesic, Anglo-Saxon or Saxon; Old Saxon; Dutch or Low Dutch, with its dialect, Flemish and Plattdeutsch (also called Low German), spoken in many dialects.
		Low Saxon is a Germanic language spoken in Germany.
		Lower Chehalis is a nearly-extinct Salishan language spoken in the USA.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /WLH.HTM (394 words)

	Low German (Plattdeutsch, or Niederdeutsch). (from German language) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Low German, with no single modern literary standard, is the spoken language of the lowlands of northern Germany.
		It developed from Old Saxon and the Middle Low German speech of the citizens of the Hanseatic League.
		From their origins in East-Central Europe, the Slavic languages spread widely and are now spoken throughout most of the Balkans and Eastern Europe, parts of Central Europe, and the northern portion of Asia.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=2649 (758 words)

	East Low German biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		East Low German dialects are spoken in north eastern parts of Germany as well as by minorities in northern Poland.
		They are, together with Low Saxon and Low Franconian, part of Low German.
		There is no clearly defined border between regions where East Low German and Low Saxon dialects are spoken.
	east-low-german.biography.ms (143 words)

	Translation: KDE op Platt! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The language is spoken in Northern Germany, the Netherlands and even in parts of the Mennonite Community in the United States and Paraguay.
		Plattdüütsch (Low Saxon) is a regional language recognized by the European Regional and Minority Language Charter.
		Although speakers of Low Saxon are able to communicate in at least one other language such as German, Dutch, Dansk, English it is a competitive advantage to have a desktop environment available in your native language.
	dot.kde.org /1075485586 (1666 words)

	Hamburgisch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hamburgisch is a Low Saxon dialect and a variant of Northern Low Saxon language spoken in Hamburg, in Germany.
		The low saxon language in Hamburg is divided in several subdialects, e.g.
		The term Hamburgisch is also used for Missingsch[?], a special dialect of high german with low german grammar and loanwords.
	www.city-search.org /ha/hamburgisch.html (300 words)

	Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Eastern Friesland “Platt” belongs to the northern division of the Lowlands Saxon (or “Low German”) language, with some unique features due to influences of the East Frisian language it replaced.
		Lowlands Saxon used to be spoken in an area from the northeastern parts of the Netherlands across Northern Germany all the way to the Baltic countries.
		Being the language of the Hanseatic Trading League, it was the language of negotiation, commerce and law all around the North Sea and the Baltic Sea during the middle ages.
	www.holger-weigelt.de /projekte/platt/summary.htm (965 words)

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