LL-L: "Printed resources" LOWLANDS-L, 10.AUG.2000 (07) [E/LS]

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From: Eldo Neufeld [greneuf at interchange.ubc.ca]
Subject: Low Saxon (Low German) publications

Schliesslich hool ekj en miene Hänj twee Beakja dee ekj en de latzte vea
Joahre jeschräwe hab.  Eent heet:  "1100 Plautdietsch verbs :  fully
conjugated in all the tenses, alphabetically arranged,"  (2 v.),  un daut
tweede:  "Plautdietsch Grammar : an aid to writing, reading, and speaking
Netherlandic-Mennonite Plautdietsch."

           ABSTRACT OF PLAUTDIETSCH VERB CONJUGATION PROJECT

In  retirement from the profession of librarianship, it was the author's
intention to do some writing in his mother tongue of Plautdietsch, a
dialect of Nether Saxon Low German, or Niederdeutsch.   In his childhood
(in the 1930s and 40s) this dialect was still widely spoken in Central
Kansas and in various areas of Canada.   Today it is in dire danger of
extinction.  The discovery that a knowledge of verb forms was
indispensable, lead to an attempt to conjugate a few verbs in all the
tenses.  That attempt has now grown to a total of 1200, 1100 of which are
included in this collection.  Publications of such collections of
conjugations are common in all major languages.

The conjugations consist of the 6 simple and 6 perfect tenses in the
indicative mood, 1 simple and 1 perfect tense in the conditional mood, and
6 simple and 6 perfect tenses in the subjunctive mood.   With each verb are
included its English and German equivalent infinitives.  These are listed
in 2 indices which follow the conjugations: an English-Plautdietsch index
and a German-Plautdietsch index, which enable a person to find instantly
the Plautdietsch verb he wishes to use.


                ABSTRACT OF PLAUTDIETSCH GRAMMAR PROJECT

The stimulus for this project arises out of the realization that the Nether
Saxon Low German dialect, Plautdietsch (a dialect, among others, of
Niederdeutsch), is in dire danger of extinction.  In the author's childhood
(in the 1930s and 40s) the dialect was still widely spoken in Central
Kansas and in various areas of Canada.  Today there is a great need for
help for many  people whose parents spoke the dialect but did not pass it
down to the next generation.  This brief grammar seeks to help fill that
need.

The work consists of 15  lessons, beginning with the smallest units of
language, the letters of the alphabet and their sounds, moving from there
to words,  individual lessons on each of the parts of speech and their
uses.  Next come lessons on the combination of words in their proper
relationships in the construction of sentences, and finally the
combinations of sentences into texts as the largest unit of language.   The
final two lessons cover the areas of times and numbers.   Each lesson
consists of 1) grammatical material, 2) a vocabulary, 3) a brief narrative
to be read, and 4) two sets of exercises, one in English and one in
Plautdietsch.

Dise Beakja send von Lincom Europa en Munich ruutjejäwt worde, un send doa
to habe.  E-Post Adrass:  lincom.europa at t-online.de

Froage?

Eldo Neufeld
4040 Blenheim St.
Vancouver, BC   V6L 2Y9
Tel: (604) 738-4378
e-mail: greneuf at interchange.ubc.ca

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

Thanks and congratulation, Eldo!

Please do me a favor and supply bibliographic information for these two items
so I can add them to our "A Beginners' Guide to Offline Language Materials:
Low Saxon (Low German)"
(http://www.geocities.com/sassisch/rhahn/lowlands/low_saxon_offline.htm).

This is what I need:

author(s); title: subtitle; place: publisher (supplier) (email/address); ISBN
#; price.

Thanks.

Reinhard/Ron

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