MOIN! Low Saxon (“Low German”)—Lesson 23: “Mother Geesche” (with subtitles)

Ⓒ Reinhard F. Hahn, 2024

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Low Saxon (“Low German”) is used in Northern Germany and in the northeastern parts of the Netherlands. Not long ago it was at long last officially recognized as a regional language of Europe. The exact number of its speakers is not known, though we can safely assume a seven-digit number.

Low Saxon is commonly called “Low German”, in German “Niederdeutsch”, “Plattdeutsch” or just “Platt”. The label “Low Saxon”, as it is called in the Netherlands, comes closer to accuracy. It is in fact the Modern Saxon language whose ancestor was Old Saxon which is also an ancestor of English. Unfortunately, the name “Saxony” went to a part of Germany that has nothing to do with the real Saxons.

The medieval Saxon language was an important and greatly influential lingua franca around the Baltic Sea and the Norwegian coast. After the demise of the Hanseatic Trading League its prestige waned and it’s region lost its independence.

For those interested in historical linguistics, this series of corpora of an internationally neglected Germanic language may within some contexts turn out to point to a missing link as the closest relative to Anglo-Frisian as well as Dutch.

Afrikaans is used in Southern Africa and is primarily based on Dutch with admixtures of Malay, French, Indigenous and other languages.

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[Mane]

Cool, dass du mit diesen Videos hilfst, Plattdeutsch zu erhalten! Ich spreche es selbst nicht, aber find den Dialekt, man muss bald sagen die Sprache, wirklich schön und freue mich, wenn uns diese Mundart erhalten bleibt :)

[curly-horses]

Eine wirklich wunderbare Idee :)
Nur waere es interessant, um welches Plattdeutsch es sich hier handelt. Denn das norddeutsche Platt, mit dem ich aufwuchs, hat mit dem hier gesprochenen Platt nur wenig Aehnlichkeit. Und selbst in Norddeutschland gibt es 6 verschiedene Plattdeutsch-Dialekte.

[ottosaxo]

Is jo egens ok 'n Vördeel, wenn de Büxenbeen so un so al opreten sünd. So kann een ok av un an mol koppheister gahn, un de Plünnen passeert liekers nix. So plietsch sünd wi tomols nich weest.