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</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><span name="Dick van Faassen"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">R. F. Hahn </font><a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">sassisch@yahoo.com</font></a><br>

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</font></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: Language varieties</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left"><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Lowlanders,<br>

<br>I stumbled across a two-part video presentation featuring an old-timer that speaks old-time Low Saxon (Low German) of Eastern Friesland (Germany). The clips come with German subtitles and subtitles in Low Saxon of Groningen (Netherlands).</font></div>

<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1356721304705_2272"><div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1356721304705_2273">

<a id="yui_3_7_2_1_1356721304705_2301" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-INJBkGsfDY" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-INJBkGsfDY</font></a><br></div>

<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1356721304705_2271"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q07QO5vLZYA&NR=1"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q07QO5vLZYA&NR=1</font></a></div></span><div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1356721304705_2271">

<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">As many of you know, the Low Saxon varieties of Eastern Friesland and Groningen are fairly closely related, and both of them have Frisian substrata. This presentation allows you to compare them.</font></div>

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Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA</font></div></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center">

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