[Lowlands-l] Amish & "low German"

[Lowlands Languages & Cultures]

Plautdietsch is thriving, mostly in South America where old conservative
colonies settled. What stands out most is that its situation is much like
that of Yiddish, in that frumer communities have a favorable aspect in next
generations inheriting the language. That contrasts to communities in
Winnipeg where they're much freer mennonites and consider it a language of
the eldery.

Recently, Google and Facebook added West Frisian, and although I don't
believe it as a language (rather than a dialect of dutch) I'd really like
to see them add Gronings since its a stem of Plautdietsch.

-Best wishes,
Eitan

בתאריך 9 באוק׳ 2017 1:31 לפנה״צ,‏ "Lowlands Languages & Cultures" <
lowlands-l at listserv.linguistlist.org> כתב:

> Hello dear Jack Driedger, can you tell us whether the Plautdietsch
> community is rapidly dwindling just like the Low German community is? Or
> does it maintain some low-level stability? Is there any deliberate and
> organized support of young speakers? This is just emerging in the Low
> German community, most probably too late for the language.
>
> By the way, I live near Bad Oldesloe, a place where the historic Menno
> Simons has lived and worked for a considerable time. This
> http://www.plattpartu.de/gott/erinn/wernecke_menno.htm Text about the
> place where he lived is written in Low German, you will have no problems
> reading it.
>
> Hartlich!
>
> Marlou
>
> Am 08.10.2017 um 22:41 schrieb Lowlands Languages & Cultures:
>
> Very interesting. I grew up speaking Plautdietsch. I have written a book
> Enn Bloomenheim Oppjewossen. If you Google Jack Driedger Plautdietsch you
> my run across some Plautdietsch reading I have done. I am a 91 year old
> retired teacher in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. My grandfather Johann Driedger
> arrived in Canada from Ukrain in 1875 at age 15.
> Jack Driedger
> ``````````````````````````````````````
> On Oct 8, 2017, at 2:03 PM, Lowlands Languages & Cultures <
> lowlands-l at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 10/8/2017 2:46 PM, Lowlands Languages & Cultures wrote:
>
> This article was on the front page of our local newspaper yesterday.  I
> hope it opens.
>
> I received my undergraduate degree from Middlebury in 1967.  Years after I
> left the state of Vermont, I hung out with Mennonites in Ontario most of
> whom spoke or at least still understood the Plautdietsch they or their
> prents brought with them from Russia after WWII.  This dialect was absorbed
> by them during the century or so that they lived in the Danziger Bucht
> after fleeing persecution in Holland.  The founder, Menno Simons (right,
> you ask, why aren't they called Simonites?), was Friesian.  The Rhineland
> Amish were there after fleeing from persecution in Austria and Switzerland
> (hence the name Yoder).  I have a former brother-in-law named Yoder, and
> his son Kevin is a Congressman from Kansas.  There are perhaps half a
> million speakers of Plautdietsch mostly in South America, but substantial
> numbers remain in Ontario and especially Manitoba.  They are the only
> remaining speakers of the language which was the lingua franca of the
> Hanseatic League.
>
>
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