Anyone know much about this dialect of German? It seems to have Dutch influence, judging from double vowels. Also called "Low Saxon" as far as I know. Can't really find any online resources about it, but it's something I'd like to learn a bit more about.
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:48 pm
Mightn't that just be any used in reference to any dialect that isn't hochdeutsch? Or perhaps Bavarian.
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:36 pm
It seems to be it's own official language in certain districts of Germany and the Netherlands. There are even entire Wikipedia articles written in Plattdüütsch.
Here's the Plattdüütsch article... IN Plattdüütsch:
I'm from Belgium. (The Flemish side yes!) I cannot understand that text on wiki that good. I see words I recognize from Flemish and some from German. But it's still rather difficult, I still do not know what they are talking about. ;D
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:38 pm
My first German teacher had that accent. The main differences between this dialect and Northern German that I remember are that they'll use the 'eh' saound for E's at the end of the word instead of 'ah', and that the 'ch' sounds like 'sh' instead of a gutteral sound. (i.e. "nach hause" becomes Nash How-zay instaed of Nach How-zah).
Now that I think about it, the Saxon dialect does sound as if it is influenced by the Dutch language. Good job on noticing.
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:05 am
I live in the Netherlands and I speak a dialect, which has a lot of influence from German. But it's not really as Plattduutsch, although we call it Platt. The official name for my dialect is Limburgs (Limburgs)
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