Apr 23, 2014 · In Germany High German (Hochdeutsch) became today's Standard German, but Low German still survives as day to day language for many people in northern Germany. Low German also got exported to the USA, Canada and Brazil with the Mennonites (e.g. Amish) and other German minorities that immigrated because of social, religious and/or econimical ...

Apr 7, 2021 · Niederdeutsch, Plattdeutsch (Low German, Low Saxon) Dialects spoken north of the Benrath line are called Niederdeutsch or Plattdeutsch. In English you also have two names for it: Low German and Low Saxon. The name comes from the low and flat land where it is spoken. There are Wikipedia articles available for it. in English; in Standard German ...

Nov 2, 2016 · The Low German dialects are still spoken in northen parts of German, and in eastern parts of the The Netherlands. These dialects are not reflected in everyday writing. There is a map on Wikipedia depicting regional distributions of Low German dialect variants: Source: Wikimedia. There even are radio and TV shows in Low German (Platt). Mostly ...

Aug 26, 2011 · Many of the words did filter into the Low German dialect of East Prussia (typically called Niederpreuss, meaning Low Prussian). The problem people have in researching this topic is that the word Prussian has been used to describe 2 different ethnicities, 2 unrelated languages (prior to the mixing), and 3 different concepts of the geography.

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May 25, 2016 · For Upper German dialect speakers, standard German can be just as difficult as it can be for Low German dialect speakers, and it has to be learnt at School, and people make grammatical mistakes, etc. etc. The reason why a certain regional pronunciation is more prestigious than others is purely political.

From a linguist's view the German language is divided into Low German (Niederdeutsch, syn. Plattdüütsch) and High German (Hochdeutsch) along the Uerdingen Line, or the Benrath Line respectively: Wikimedia:Uerdinen Line. We can see that Dutch is entriely included in the Low German language area. We can therefore say that Dutch is a dialect of ...

Oct 25, 2016 · Bavarian is an Upper German dialect, the ones which the "standard" originally was created from by Luther's bible translation. Low German is the most different from "Standard German", as it was never considered for the standard. …

Jul 10, 2016 · Sneewittchen is Low German, Schneeweißchen is High German. In later editons, the High German name is deleted and only the Low German name is kept. The Grimms address it in the Anhang (appendix) to the text: " Dies Märchen gehört zu den bekanntesten, doch wird in Gegenden, wo bestimmt hochdeutsch herrscht, der plattdeutsche Namen beibehalten ...

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