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From: From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Language varieties

Dear Lowlanders,

Below is a link to a video recording of a German TV documentary about
agricultural challenges and flood defenses. The two men in it speak Eastern
Friesland Low Saxon, and there are German subtitles.

http://tinyurl.com/4vxjpt

This offers you a chance to listen to genuine, old-time, natively spoken Low
Saxon of that region, specifically near Emden and the border with Groningen.
These may be members of the last generation of speakers of such varieties
with litte German influence. Those varieties have East Frisian substrata.
The phonology is considerably different from "mainstream" Northern Low Saxon
of Germany, is closer to Groningen varieties west of the Netherlands-German
border. For one thing, they are rhotic (i.e. "pronounce final /r/"), though
varieties spoken farther east in Eastern Friesland are non-rhotic.

For speakers of other Low Saxon varieties of Germany, the gentleman in the
boat is fairly easy to understand, while the other gentleman, the one doing
most of the talking, is quite difficult to understand (certainly without the
subtitles), in part because he speaks to fast.

We have an Eastern Friesland Low Saxon translation of the wren story as
well, and it comes with an audio recording. This is a non-rhotic variety.

http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/contents.php

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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