LL-L: "Names" LOWLANDS-L, 19.DEC.1999 (02) [E]

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From: jchilders at mindex.com
Subject: LL-L: "Names" LOWLANDS-L, 18.DEC.1999 (01) [E]

> > Ron, if you could send me what you had found earlier, that would be great,
>too.
>
>What *I* had found?  I don't know what you mean.

I had meant what you had been told the names of the Baltic Sea were.
If it wasn't you, then I stand (sit?) corrected.

>By the way, is there any particular reason why you have omitted Low Saxon (Low
>German) above, such as under "North Sea"?  Should you still want it, it's
>_Noordsee_, and, I believe, something like _Noordzee_ or _Noordzei_
>in varieties
>of the Netherlands.

The only reason it was left off because I was unsure of the geography
of Low Saxon (Low German) (as in, was it spoken on the shores, or was
it "interlocked"?) .  Thanks for letting me know.  If there are other
languages spoken on the North Sea, or any of the others, please tell
me as well.

Jason Childers
Rochester, New York
jchilders at mindex.com

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From: R. F. Hahn [sassisch at yahoo.com]
Subject: Holidays

Jason:

> The only reason it was left off because I was unsure of the geography
> of Low Saxon (Low German) (as in, was it spoken on the shores, or was
> it "interlocked"?) .  Thanks for letting me know.  If there are other
> languages spoken on the North Sea, or any of the others, please tell
> me as well.

In what is now Germany, the only languages used along the shores of the North
Sea used to be Low Saxon (Low German) and Frisian, and along the Baltic Sea
coast only Low Saxon which had replaced West Slavic language varieties.  The
German language came much later when it gradually usurped the North beginning
soon after the demise of the Hanseatic Trading League.

Best regards,

Reinhard/Ron

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