LL-L "Names" 2007.12.21 (01) [E]

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From: Marcus Buck <list at marcusbuck.org>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2007.12.20 (02) [E]

> Low Saxon (Neddersass'sch). Maybe Low Saxon is called "Neddersass'sch"
> in Plattdüütsch. I think that Neddersass'sch is another name of
> Plattdüütsch or Niederdeutsch.
>
> Our language is known as /Nedersaksisch /in Dutch, which is much more
> appropriate. References to "German" come from the time when in Germany
> they /wanted/ the language to be a dialect group of German.
Well, the name /Nedersaksisch/ in the Netherlands is of relatively
modern date (I heard of the 1990s being the date were this went a common
term). Before there was much particularism with everyone calling his
dialect only after his region (those terms are still common, but now as
subdivisions of Nedersaksisch).

In the German part of the language area the one and only popular term
for the whole language is /plattdüütsch. Neddersass'sch /and
/Nedderdüütsch/ are only used by educated speakers.

Marcus Buck
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