Moin! Low Saxon (“Low German”): “Pronunciation 2”

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Low Saxon (“Low German”) is used in Northern Germany and in the northeastern parts of the Netherlands. Not long ago it was at long last officially recognized as a regional language of Europe. The exact number of its speakers is not known, though we can safely assume a seven-digit number.

Low Saxon is commonly called “Low German”, in German “Niederdeutsch”, “Plattdeutsch” or just “Platt”. The label “Low Saxon”, as it is called in the Netherlands, comes closer to accuracy. It is in fact the Modern Saxon language whose ancestor was Old Saxon which is also an ancestor of English. Unfortunately, the name “Saxony” went to a part of Germany that has nothing to do with the real Saxons.

The medieval Saxon language was an important and greatly influential lingua franca around the Baltic Sea and the Norwegian coast. After the demise of the Hanseatic Trading League its prestige waned and it’s region lost its independence.

For those interested in historical linguistics, this series of corpora of an internationally neglected Germanic language may within some contexts turn out to point to a missing link as the closest relative to Anglo-Frisian as well as Dutch.

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