- East Low German
language
name=East Low German
states=Germany ,Poland
familycolor=Indo-European
fam2=Germanic
fam3=West Germanic
fam4=Low German
iso2=nds
iso3=ndsEast Low German is a group of
Low German dialects spoken in NortheastGermany as well as by minorities in northernPoland . Together withWest Low German , it constitutesLow German .Related languages
East Low German belongs to the
dialect continuum of the continentalWest Germanic languages . It developed from the olderMiddle Low German .In the West it fades into West Low German. The distinction is usually made referring to the plural endings of the verbs: East Low German endings are based on the old first/third person ending: -e(n), whereas West Low German endings are based on the old second person ending: -(e)t. The categorization of the Low German dialects into an Eastern and a Western group is not made by all linguists.
In the South, it fades into
East Central German . The difference is that the East Low German varieties have not been affected by theHigh German consonant shift . The areas affected by the High German consonant shift are still expanding today, especially the Berlinisch dialect that is gaining ground on theBrandenburgisch dialect by which it is surrounded.Dialects
East Low German dialects are:
* InGermany :
**Brandenburgisch (inBrandenburg , NorthernSaxony-Anhalt )
** Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch
* InPoland :
**Low Prussian (spoken by minorities around Gdańsk in northern Poland; nearly extinct since 1945, considered to include Plauttdietsch by some observers)
**East Pomeranian (spoken by minorities inPomerania andBrazil ; part of the Pommersch dialect group)It also includes
Plautdietsch (originating from Danzig), which is spoken byMennonite s inNorth America and a few other places in the world. Berlinisch (inBerlin ) was a version of Brandenburgisch in medieval times until it split off; it is now seen as anEast Middle German dialect."Baltendeutsch" is a High German variety influenced by East Low German formerly spoken by Germans in the Baltic states.
The Lord's Prayer in Plautdietsch
: Ons Voda em Himmel,: lot dien Nome jeheilicht woare;: lot dien Ritjdom kome;: lot dien Welle jedone woare,: uck hia oppe Ed, soo aus em Himmel;: jeff ons Dach fe Dach daut Broot, daut ons fehlt;: en vejeff ons onse Schult,: soo aus wie den vejewe, dee sich jeajen ons veschuldicht ha;: en brinj ons nich en Vesetjunk nenn,: oba rad ons von Beeset.
Writers
Fritz Reuter is one of the most famous Low German writers.ee also
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Prussia External links
* [http://www.plautdietsch-freunde.de/ Plautdietsch Freunde e.V.]
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