LL-L "Language varieties" 2010.12.11 (01) [EN]

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

Subject: Language varieties



Dear Lowlanders,



As most of you know, Pomeranian Low Saxon (“Platt”) is moribund in Europe.
(While some people may still speak Western Pomeranian dialects in the
eastern part of the German State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), there
now appear to be few or no speakers on the Polish side of the border.)

As some of you may also know, Pomeranian Low Saxon is still used in
southeastern Brazil, apparently by around 100,000 people of all ages.

There is a video-taped interview in Brazilian Low Saxon (with German
subtitles) with Arvelino Lutzke, a young Brazilian doing an internship on a
farm in Northern Germany. Please note similarities with Mennonite Low Saxon
(“Plautdietsch”); e.g. the *-e* (instead of *-n*) endings. However, you can
tell that his dialect originated much farther west, probably in an area west
of today’s Polish border. You can tell this by the absence of frontal
unrounding that is typical of dialects farther east. For instance, he says *
Köh(e)* [ˈkʰœˑɪ(ə̆)] ‘cows’ and *Lü(e)* [ˈlyː(ə̆)] ‘people’, where Mennonite
Low Saxon has *Kjäih* [kʲɛˑɪ] and *Lied* [liːˑd] respectively.



The video: http://vimeo.com/15857556

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron
Seattle, USA



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