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	Low Saxon language - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		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.
		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.
		Kollumerlands (a Frisian/Low Saxon mixture dialect in Groningen and Fryslân)
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=17743 (969 words)

	saxon - definition by dict.die.net
		Old Saxon, the Saxon of the continent of Europe in the old form of the language, as shown particularly in the ``Heliand'', a metrical narration of the gospel history preserved in manuscripts of the 9th century.
		Saxon blue (Dyeing), a deep blue liquid used in dyeing, and obtained by dissolving indigo in concentrated sulphuric acid.
		Low German, the language of Northern Germany and the Netherlands, -- including Friesic; Anglo-Saxon or Saxon; Old Saxon; Dutch or Low Dutch, with its dialect, Flemish; and Plattdeutsch (called also Low German), spoken in many dialects.
	dict.die.net /saxon (368 words)

	Northern Low Saxon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Northern Low Saxon (in Low German, Noordneddersassisch) is a West Low German dialect.
		Hamburgisch, Holsteinisch and Schleswigsch belong to Northern Low Saxon.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northern_Low_Saxon_language (362 words)

	The Anglo-Saxon Church
		In England the Saxons, after establishing themselves in the south and east, in the localities now represented by Sussex and Essex, founded a great kingdom in the West which gradually absorbed almost the whole country south of the Thames.
		The Latin language was used both in the liturgy and in the canonical hours.
		The ancient Saxon tower of Earl's Barton church near Northampton may be appealed to as an illustration of the rest.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/e/england,anglo-saxon_church.html (5814 words)

	Dutch language - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		It is also spoken by most in the Flemish northern half of Belgium, with the exception of Brussels, where it is spoken by a minority of the population, French being the dominant language.
		Dutch is an official language of the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, Aruba, and the Netherlands Antilles.
		Afrikaans, a language spoken in South Africa and Namibia, is derived primarily from 17th century Dutch dialects, and a great deal of mutual intelligibility still exists.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/d/u/t/Dutch_language.html (4255 words)

	Low German - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Low German (also called Plattdeutsch, Plattdüütsch or Low Saxon) is a name for the regional language varieties of the West Germanic languages spoken mainly in Northern Germany where it is officially called Niederdeutsch ('Low German'), and in Eastern Netherlands where it is officially called Nedersaksisch ('Low Saxon').
		The general attitude among Low German speakers in the Netherlands, however, is that the Dutch Low Saxon varieties belong to a continuum with the Low German varieties of Northern Germany.
		Low German is a West Germanic language of the lowlands and as such did not experience the High German consonant shift.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Low_Saxon_language (2119 words)

	Linguist List - List of Ancient and Extinct Languages
		The language of diplomacy and culture from the 3rd Millennium BC to the early 1st Millennium.
		The monuments are mostly in a language of the Cholan subgroup, an archaic version of either Chol or Chortí; they may also be in one of the Tzeltalan languages, which are closely related to Cholan.
		A possible extinct language or dialect spoken in the eastern Korean peninsula north of Silla (which kingdom was for centuries limited to the SE corner of the peninsula), it was absorbed by Koguryo some time before the demise of the Koguryo kingdom.
	linguistlist.org /forms/langs/GetListOfAncientLgs.html (4054 words)

	German Language - MSN Encarta
		German belongs to the Netherlandic-German group within the western branch of the Germanic languages, a subfamily of the Indo-European languages.
		Another characteristic of German, as well as of all the Germanic languages, is that the principal accent falls regularly upon the first syllable of a word; in verbal combinations, however, the root syllable, not the prefix, is stressed.
		German is an inflected language, with three genders, four cases, and a strong and weak declension of qualifying adjectives.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567950/German_Language.html (635 words)

	The German language
		Russia, by contrast is so vast, and yet the language is extremely uniform, with no dialects at all in widespread usage that I can tell (not counting the various slang vocabularies, which are something different), and only very slight differences in accent.
		Language skills in Russia fall off a bit in the villages, but the general level of language ability is extraordinarily high, much higher than any other place I know of.
		Low German (including Anglo-Saxon) was not affected by the soundshift at all.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Language/language_germanlang101302.html (1084 words)

	Low Saxon (Plattdeutsch) language
		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.
		Nowadays Low Saxon is maintained rather steadily in its native regions, though it gradually becomes closer to common official High German.
		Practically all these phonetic changes took place in ancient period, in the Old Saxon language, the parent tongue for English, Dutch, Frisian and Scots.
	members.tripod.com /babaev/tree/saxon.html (133 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)

	Northern Europe travel guide - Wikitravel
		Northern Europe is region of Europe in the North of the Baltic Sea.
		The Scandinavian languages are North Germanic, strongly influenced by Low Saxon (Ancient German).
		The language of Iceland is also Scandinavian in origin, being based on Old Norse, but it diverged a long time ago and written Icelandic, in particular, is nearly unchanged from the 13th century.
	wikitravel.org /en/Northern_Europe (430 words)

	saxon-spanglish - 2
		The ancient representation of the obscure mid lax vowel or schwa in Saxon was almost as ambiguous as it is today: e could be interpreted as either [eh] or as an unstressed è [uh].
		Saxon is easy to read since so few words are respelled, the phonemic version requires an adjustment.
		Phonemic Saxon, a related notation, is just another analog or isomorph of IPA [the International Phonetic Alphabet] - there is a one to one correspondence between the two notations.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/vangogh/555/Spell/saxon-spanglish2.html (3405 words)

	Saxons Part 2
		The indigenous population were no match for the Saxons and were pushed further and further to the west of England, finally halting in the counties of Devon, Cornwall and Somerset.
		The Saxons lived in thatched tent like huts called tuns which were usually built in forest clearings or next to rivers.
		He was subject to the same Saxon law as everybody else and as such was more vulnerable to wergild and usurpers.
	www.battle1066.com /saxons2.shtml (1385 words)

	ipedia.com: English language Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
		Frisian is a language spoken by approximately half a million people in the Dutch province of Friesland, in nearby areas of Germany, and on a few islands in the North Sea.
		It is the language most often studied as a foreign language in Europe (32.6 percent) and Japan, followed by French, German and Spanish.
	www.ipedia.com /english_language.html (2458 words)

	lower saxon: language or local dialect? Thoughts of Plattmaster about the status of lower saxon
		Plattdüütsch (Low Saxon) was the lingua franca of the Hanse.
		A second language for people, a language rather for the heart than for the commerce, worth to be used and saved.
		The North Sea wordlist Platt-English-Deutsch-Anglo-Saxon) or the scandinavian languages and the dutch language.
	www.plattmaster.de /language.htm (1139 words)

	Old Low German (Old Saxon) language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		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.
		Weak Celtic tribes in Britain could not resist too long the aggressive Germans, and soon the Old Saxon language and ethnic group divided into two: Anglo-Saxon or Old English language and the Saxon language, known now as Low German.
		Old Saxon turned to be more analytical than the High German language: the nominative singular of the nouns was not already different in the gender.
	members.tripod.com /babaev/tree/olg.html (276 words)

	Low Saxon (Plattdeutsch) language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Since the 13th century the heir of the Old Saxon (Old Low German) language is called Low Saxon.
		Its main difference from the High German language is the absence of the '2nd consonant shift' which took place in Old High German.
		Low German influenced greatly Swedish and Danish in the Middle Ages.
	indoeuro.bizland.com /tree/germ/saxon.html (346 words)

	Ethnologue: Germany
		Schleswig-Holstein, on the coastal strip between the rivers Eider in the south and Wiedau in the north, and adjacent islands of Föhr, Amrum, Sylt, Norstrand, Pellworm, the ten islands of the Halligen group, and Helgoland.
		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).
		Officially recognized as a regional language in 8 states of Germany and in the northeastern provinces of the Netherlands.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Germ.html (1115 words)

	First Europe Tutorial - Latin and Vernaculars
		In each period of its evolution there were significant differences between the literary written language, distinct from the spoken language of the educated and from that of the less educated populace.
		Celtic seems to have disappeared from Northern Gaul by the fifth century and was later re-introduced by refugees who fled to the Continent from the invasion of the British Isles by the Angles, Saxons and Jutes.
		In the period of the migrations, the languages of the invading nations introduced a stronger element of linguistic diversity into the territory of the late Roman Empire.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/firsteuro/lang.html (1389 words)

	Lowlands-L Anniversary Celebration
		Language information: Old Saxon is the primary ancestor of Low Saxon and one of the main ancestors of English.
		Old Saxon was used from Southern Schleswig in the north to the Harz Mountains in the south, from close to the Ijssel Sea in the west to about Kiel and Lauenburg in the east.
		In some western and northern border regions it overlapped with Frisian, Low Franconian, Anglish and Jutish, in southern regions with German and in eastern regions with Western Slavonic.
	www.lowlands-l.net /anniversary/oldsaxon.php (231 words)

	Reginheim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Proto-Germanic is a hypothetical language of which we have no written accounts; it has been reconstructed by researching the oldest known Germanic languages like Gothic and runic Swedish and by comparing modern Germanic languages; this results in a proto-language that must have been spoken before a separation into various dialects occured.
		Germanic languages officially belong to the Indo-European language family but a large portion of it is derived from a non-Indo-European source which makes the origin of the Proto-Germanic language and it's speakers even more mysterious.
		The Low German languages are Dutch, English, Frisian, and the dialects spoken in northern Germany, this languages have developed from the dialects that were spoken in the coastal areas of western Germania.
	www.geocities.com /reginheim/language.html (962 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:nds
		Low Saxon varieties listed as separate entries in the Netherlands, where they have official status.
		Officially recognized as a regional (separate) language in 8 states of Germany.
		Recognized as a regional (separate) language by the European Charta on Languages.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=nds (223 words)

	The Dutch Language
		The migrants brought their language with them, and some words that are still used today belong to this wave.
		Along the coast of Flanders, these people can be identified as Saxons (who proceeded to settle in Britain); the people along the river Meuse, on the other hand, were Franks, allowed to settle there by the future emperor Julian.
		In the Late Carolingian age, the Germanic languages on the Continent dropped the /th/, which was replaced by /t/ or /d/.
	www.livius.org /dutchhistory/language.html (2935 words)

	THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE AND THE BACKGROUND OF THE REFORMATION
		Alongside the Devotio Moderna, which was orthodox in its theological views, there was a long tradition of religious radicalism in the Low Countries; the most outstanding characteristic was a willingness to question the accepted doctrine of the Eucharist, or Lord's Supper.
		The reform program of northern humanism was a broad one; it aimed at a regeneration of moral and spiritual life, of political and ecclesiastical institutions, and of education.
		In the foundation of this institution, which was eventually to be known as the Collge de France, the king was encouraged by one of the greatest of all French classical scholars, Guillaume Bud (1468-1540).
	vlib.iue.it /carrie/texts/carrie_books/gilbert/09.html (9834 words)

	German language
		It is comprehensible why it is the language of some of the greatest thinkers of century XIX and of gorgeous literary works that last in the cultural heap of the humanity.
		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).
		High German and Low German dialectal groups are different mainly in their system of sounds, particularly with respect to the consonants.
	www.orbislingua.com /ead.htm (508 words)

	Niederdeutsch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In the european language charter it is recognized as a REgional language.
		Prior to that, the dialects of Northern Germany were regarded as belonging to German, and the dialects of the Eastern Netherlands were regarded as belonging to Dutch.
		Because of centuries of official and educational neglect and suppression, the language has been unable to develop a standard dialect and a standard orthography, even though there is a notable written Low Saxon tradition.
	dot.kde.org /1068190182/1068226208 (654 words)

	A Question to all: [...] \| Antimoon Forum
		In my opinion, Low German dialects are in fact heavily High German.Nevertheless the statement that nearly all Germans speak a dialect rather than the standard language with an accent isn't true.
		Low German languages such as Dutch and Afrikaans are closer to this "German" than high German variants like Standard German or Yiddish.
		"Low German is a name for the regional language varieties of the Low Germanic languages (still!) spoken mainly in northern Germany, and eastern Netherlands.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/t2823-30.htm (1353 words)

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