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- proper noun A group of related
dialects ofLow German , spoken in northernGermany and parts of theNetherlands , formerly also inDenmark .
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Examples
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And I couldn't make sense of the reason for banishing German and any German dialects but Low Saxon, and at the same time including English as a topic.
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The view that Low Saxon and German are inseparable is based on the old Germanization doctrine that until recently denied Low Saxon separate status despite its origin in Old Saxon, and many people are not yet ready to think outside that box.
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Low Saxon, The chief rivers are the Weser and the Hunte.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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The Low Saxon dialects spoken in the east of the Netherlands are often included as East Dutch Low Saxon.
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Low German went through a similar development, starting with Old Saxon and similar languages, through Middle Low German into the modern Low German, which is in linguistics often referred to a Low Saxon.
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Low German went through a similar development, starting with Old Saxon and similar languages, through Middle Low German into the modern Low German, which is in linguistics often referred to a Low Saxon.
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The Low Saxon dialects spoken in the east of the Netherlands are often included as East Dutch Low Saxon.
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These are primarily Dutch, Zeelandic (Zeeuws, West Flemish), Frisian, Limburgish and Low Saxon (Low German).
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If so, we must content ourselves with the reflection that while the English language is historically most closely affiliated with Frisian, in second degree with the other West Germanic dialects (Low Saxon or Plattdeutsch, Dutch, High German), only in third degree with Scandinavian, the specific Saxon racial type that overran England in the fifth and sixth centuries was largely the same as that now represented by the Danes, who speak a Scandinavian language, while the High German-speaking population of central and southern Germany4 is markedly distinct.
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Place #5: Northern Germany Lower Saxony or Saxony-Anhalt) because of a) the Low Saxon language: "En Vörbild is för uns dat Swien: Dat wiest uns, as wie nich schöllt sien!"
Where we've been the last 9 days C N Heidelberg 2009
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