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	German Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The German language is the original language of the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition.
		The impetus for German language preservation has shifted from the churches to other institutions, such as societies for the preservation of "heritage languages" and lobbyist groups (e.g., the German-Canadian Congress, and, specifically, Manitoba Parents for German Education), which are strongly supported by Mennonites.
		In the eastern and midwestern United States traces of the older languages, both High German and dialects, are seen mainly in literature, art, and folklore and in the continuing use of German hymnals and sermons by Old Order and Amish groups.
	www.mhsc.ca /encyclopedia/contents/G476ME.html (1233 words)

	Plautdietsch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Plautdietsch, or Mennonite Low German, is a language spoken by the Mennonites, who are ethnically Dutch, but who adopted an East Low German dialect while they were refugees in the Vistula delta area of Royal Prussia (later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), beginning in the early-to-mid 1500s.
		Beginning in the late 1700s, when the region became part of the Kingdom of Prussia, many Mennonites left and created new colonies north of the Black Sea (present-day Ukraine), in an area that Russia had recently acquired in one of the Russo-Turkish Wars.
		Today Plautdietsch is spoken in Paraguay, Mexico, Ukraine, Germany, Canada (particularly Manitoba and Saskatchewan), Brazil, Belize and the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plautdietsch_language (330 words)

	Low Saxon dialect. Who is Low Saxon dialect? What is Low Saxon dialect? Where is Low Saxon dialect? Definition of Low ...
		The Northern Low Saxon language serves as a common intelligible language in TV and Wireless programms.
		The Low Saxon language has commonality with the English language, the Scandinavian languages and Frisian in that it has not been influenced by the High German sound shift.
		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.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Low_Saxon_dialect (474 words)

	Pedantry - everything that bored you to death in high school
		Language is not an arbitrary protocol, it is the concrete manifestation of the worldview of the culture that supports it.
		This is why a language preservation project should place a great deal of emphasis on ensuring that the elements of daily life are available in the language we seek to preserve.
		However, the ability to conduct as much of one's life as is feasible in the language of one's choice is not an unreasonable goal and where it is present, even universal bilingualism does not necessarily threaten the language's future.
	pedantry.blogspot.com /2003_08_24_pedantry_archive.html (6945 words)

	Plautdietsch language Definition / Plautdietsch language Research
		Plautdietsch, or Mennonite Low German, is a language spoken by the Russian Mennonites, who are ethnically DutchThe Netherlands (Plural, in Dutch Nederland (singular)) is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch Koninkrijk der Nederlanden), a parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarch.
		The nation of Honduras is a near neighbour of Belize, 75 km away (47 miles) at the closest point across the Gulf of Honduras to the east.
		Spanish or Castilian is an Iberian Romance language, and the third or fourth most spoken language in the world.
	www.elresearch.com /Plautdietsch_language (728 words)

	Latest News #265 – Canada
		This was the date on which the first complete Bible in their language was launched at a ceremony near Winnipeg conducted in both English and Plautdietsch.
		With Plautdietsch being essentially an oral language, however, this project presented significant challenges for the translators when they began work in 1998.
		Plautdietsch Bibles are now being shipped to Mennonite communities in Central America, South America and Germany.
	www.biblesociety.org /latestnews/latest266-canada.html (509 words)

	InfoHub Forums - Plautdietsch
		Plautdietsch is also called Low German or Mennonite German.
		It is spoken in Canada by around 80 thousand people as their first language and roughly 20 thousand people as their second language.
		Plautdietsch isn't intelligible with many other Low German languages, but it is spoken in many other regions such as Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Germany, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Paraguay, Russia (Asia), Uruguay, USA.
	www.infohub.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1086 (582 words)

	Modelling syntactic change in Pennsylvania German (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Varieties of this language are also spoken in the US, South America and in Kazakhstan and Siberia (Neufeld 2000, Nieuweboer 2000).
		The name the native speakers in Waterloo County use for their language is "Daetsch", in parts of the US, the name "Pennsylvansch" is more often used.
		The language as it is has grown out of a blend of the many different dialects which came into Pennsylvania during the first wave of immigration during the 17th century.
	lings.ln.man.ac.uk /Research/PennG/language.html (359 words)

	Low Saxon language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Germany it is considered, together with East Low German as part of a language called Plattdüütsch.
		The ISO 639-2 language code for Plattdüütsch is nds since May 2000.
		Although often considered a variation of German, in many aspects it is more like Dutch, which is based on closely related Low Franconian dialects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Low_Saxon_language (834 words)

	Plautdietsch language. Who is Plautdietsch language? What is Plautdietsch language? Where is Plautdietsch language? ...
		Plautdietsch, or Mennonite Low German, is spoken by Russian Mennonite groups, who are ethnically Dutch, but who adopted a Low Saxon dialect while they were refugees in Province of Prussia.
		Today Plautdietsch is spoken in Paraguay, Mexico, Ukraine, Canada, Brazil, Belize and the United States of America.
		This may ultimately lead to an abondonment of the language by even this group in the future.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Plautdietsch_language (206 words)

	NOVES SL. THE FOUNDATION FOR ENDANGERED LANGUAGES. NINTH CONFERENCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The languages we talk about will be very varied, and likely to include the languages of communities all over the world.
		Some of them are spoken by indigenous communities, which have become a minority on their own original territory due to the immigration of a dominant majority group.
		In some cases, endangered languages may have gone into their own world-wide diapora: such is the case of Plautdietsch, language of the Mennoties, who emigrated to many places (Siberia, Canada, Mexico, Paraguay), where often their language became marginalised.
	www6.gencat.net /llengcat/noves/agenda/felix.htm (354 words)

	Dialect Literature and Speech, Low German (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Even in the high density Mennonite areas of southern Manitoba where the dialect was still spoken extensively in rural parts and towns like Steinbach, Winkler and Altona, it has lost ground steadily, especially in Winnipeg, which has the greatest urban concentration of Mennonites anywhere.
		The promotion of Plautdietsch as a literary language has received added impetus from two Low German dictionaries compiled, respectively, by Jack Thiessen (1977) and by Herman Rempel (1979, revised 1984).
		Plautdietsch is also being mixed with English (Armin Wiebe, The Salvation of Yasch Siemens) and with High German (Jack Thiessen, Predicht fier haite) to produce hybrid languages for comic effect.
	www.mhsc.ca /encyclopedia/contents/D5350ME.html (742 words)

	News & Features
		The goal was to deliver the text in the form of Plautdietsch best understood by most people who still speak the language today.
		Because this is the language that speaks most effectively to many Mennonites in a number of communities in Germany, Mexico and South America today.
		Plautdietsch Bibles were sold after the launch, and a collection was held to aid in shipping the Bibles to communities in Bolivia, where the adding the cost of shipping might make them unaffordable.
	www.illuminart.com /wycliffe/news/index.asp?DocumentID=61 (846 words)

	Language
		Language has been an important part of Mennonite ethnic identity.
		Moving from place to place, language sometimes seemed like one of the only things that remained relatively the same; a bond that tied Mennonite groups together.
		Some insisted that the German language was an important part of their faith and culture, and did not want English to become broadly used.
	www.mhsc.ca /mennos/clanguage.html (535 words)

	Plautdietsch language.html - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plautdietsch_language.html (103 words)

	Bible Network News :: North America & Caribbean - New Plautdietsch Bible received enthusiastically
		Plautdietsch or Low German, is an old, essentially oral language from a linguistic lineage that gave rise to both High German and English.
		The promotion of Plautdietsch as a literary language received a boost in the late 70's, when two Low German dictionaries were published.
		Building on the 1987 Plautdietsch New Testament translated by radio preacher J.J. Neufeld, translators from Mexico, Paraguay and Canada established the goal of creating an easy to read and understand text in the form of Plautdietsch used by most people who still speak the language today.
	www.biblenetworknews.com /northamerica/020604_canada.html (787 words)

	Low Saxon (Low German) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		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.
		Serious attempts at using the language in contemporary and experimental modes did not begin in earnest until the 1970s and are still few and far between.
		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 German languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Low German (in Low German: PlattdÃ¼Ã¼tsch or NedderdÃ¼Ã¼tsch) is any of a variety of West Germanic language Language spoken in northern Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.
		It also includes Afrikaans, which is spoken in South Africa, and Plautdietsch language, which is spoken by Mennonite communities in North America and South America.
		It tends to lead to confusion when discussing the German language: in such use many dialects called 'Low German' are actually High German dialects.
	www.outerbanks-nc.net /search/Low_German.html (455 words)

	Low German Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		It also includes Afrikaans, which is spoken in South Africa, and Plautdietsch, which is spoken by Mennonite communities in North America.
		It tends to lead to confusion when discussing the German language: many High German dialects are called Low German, a term properly used only for the dialects and languages described here.
		Low German is distinguished from High German principally in that the latter underwent a consonant shift in the 700s and 800s.
	www.wikiverse.org /low-german-language (524 words)

	InfoHub Forums - Plautdietsch
		This Plautdietsch I was talking about, is spoken by descendants of German emigrants to the New World (USA, Canada) and then Brasil, Argentina, etc. It is a mistery though how it came that in Kazahstan this language is also spoken.
		As the simple seamen spoke their old language, which for sur was no "High German" - they settled there, and they kept their use and language.
		It is a branch of Germanic languages that has a history of its own and has the stages of alt- mittel- and neu-platdeutsch.
	www.infohub.com /forums/printthread.php?t=1086&pp=40 (2278 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages Issue 26.
		This is a language that is going through an accelerating process of endangerment, due to the pressure of former colonial languages and other expanding neighbouring languages, and to massive migrations that are leaving from the traditional Mandinka territories (specially in Casamance, Senegal).
		The investigated language is Pite-Saami, a Southern Lappish language.
		The two languages are closely related, but demonstrate considerable differences in their lexicon, to the extent that mutual understanding is impossible.
	www.ogmios.org /261.htm (1733 words)

	languagehat.com: PLAUTDIETSCH DICTIONARY.
		A Mennonite Low German Dictionary; the introduction goes into the history of the language, and the guide to use gives some basic grammar and pronunciation, highlighting the differences between the Old Colony and Molotschna Mennonites.
		But "uzhent" is a fairly common word, not a substantive that might have been borrowed from a contact language.
		The only other Slavic language they might have had any contact with was Old Prussian.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/000751.php (316 words)

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		One of Epp's motivations was to instill language pride and appreciation in the speakers of Plautdietsch.
		In the same context he attributes many Plautdietsch speakers' lack of respect for their language to their ignorance of the history and linguistic status of the language.
		Epp's work cites an impressive number of recognized language authorities and is thoroughly and meticulously documented in detailed end-of-chapter notes and bibliography useful to scholars intent on researching Low German.
	www.goshen.edu /facultypubs/REVIEWS196.html (6346 words)

	LINGUIST List 14.717: Lang Descr/Lexicography, Plautdietsch: Neufeldt
		It is hoped that this Dictionary of Plautdietsch Synonyms and Antonyms will prove to be that tool for people writing in the Plautdietsch dialect.
		Work on this project over a number of years has proven to the author that our 450-year-old dialect, originally formulated in the 16th and 17th centuries in Northern Europe, is unbelievably and un- expectedly rich in its vocabulary and possibilities of expression.
		These experiences, heightened by the memory of the economic poverty and hardships of his family situation, caused a deep seriousness to develop in his psyche and most of the poems clearly reflect that.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/14/14-717.html (354 words)

	Links
		The forum language is Russian and shall bring all former inahbitants of Leninpol together.There are two further web sites of Leninpol in German language: http://www.leninpol.de und http://www.leninpol.net.
		Plautdietsch-Freunde e.V. was founded in Oerlinghausen, Germany, in 1999, with the goal of documenting, nurturing, and promoting the Plautdietsch language.
		Plautdietsch is a West Prussian variety of Low German which emerged approximately 450 years ago in the Vistula delta area of what is now Poland.
	www.neu-samara.de /index.php?artikel=links&sprache=en (368 words)

	The NDSU Libraries: Germans From Russia
		Buchheit, Robert H. "Language Maintenance and Shift among Mennonites in South-Central Kansas," Yearbook of German-American Studies.
		Gilbert, Glenn G. "The German Language in Ellis County, Kansas," Heritage of Kansas, 9 (1976), 8-16.
		Keel, William D., "A Russian-German Settlement Dialect in Kansas: Plautdietsch in South Central Kansas," 138-57 in The German Language in America, 1683-1991, Joseph C. Salmons, editor, Madison, Wisconsin: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993.
	www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu /grhc/info/bibliography/dialect2.html (1407 words)

	Dialects
		This site informs the reader about the Linguistic situation in Luxembourg, what the oral form of the language is (Lëtzebuergesch), attempts at Lëtzebuergesch as a written language, and some other information about language in Luxembourg.
		This page is not the best site for information about the language, but is good for a general overview of who uses the language and where it is used.
		This article was published in The Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics and was written by Felicity Rash from the University of London and was received in 1996.
	web.uvic.ca /geru/472/472dialects.htm (1555 words)

	EveryTongue.com Language Recordings Main page
		Here is the list of languages that you can hear if you order the cassette tape.
		Here is a list of the languages that do not have a recording.
		Here you can listen to a recording in a language you know and then listen to the same recording in a language that you want to learn.
	www.everytongue.com (531 words)

	Low German Dictionary; Author (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Herman Rempel has deep roots in the Mennonite Plautdietsch language and culture.
		A third generation Canadian, he was born in 1915, Altona, Manitoba, in the West Reserve granted by the Canadian government to the Mennonites in southern Manitoba in 1875.
		Rempel has in the past several years done extensive reference work in Plautdietsch and its vocabulary, pronunciation and orthography.
	www.mennolink.org /doc/lg/author.html (126 words)

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