Anyway the man explained they are Mennonites, they speak a language called Plattdeutsch, which is a dialect of German, they work as farmers and live apart from the general Paraguayan community in a colony, in this particular colony, there are 5000 of them, they have their own schools and hospitals, basically a country within a country. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dijkstra is Dutch, actually, although Plautdeutsch, also called Plattdeutsch, was spoken in the lowland ares of Germany north of Holland.). From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
America, the Modern Greek or Romaic, Lowland Scotch, and Plattdeutsch, the very frequent employment of diminutives has come to be a marked characteristic of the common speech of the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
Folks have been teaching him dialects, Plattdeutsch for the zone the British plan to occupy, Thur-ingian if the Russians happen not to drive as far as Nordhausen, where die central rocket works is located. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
Reuter's novels aloud to her -- he spoke Plattdeutsch admirably -- as dutifully as a son. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
So sings Klaus Groth, in and concerning his own Plattdeutsch -- so nearly akin to the English. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Gibbie] Reference
You can talk Plattdeutsch something grand, as long as you keep the verbs and nouns in American. From Wordnik.com. [Free Air] Reference
The Garden City German Club has been busy attending various Volksfests which are held @ the Plattdeutsch Park (Franklin Square). From Wordnik.com. [Garden City News] Reference
Bayerisch, perhaps, north German Plattdeutsch as dialect OK, but Sächsisch, which amongst Germans counts as pretty much extreme, I simply don't hear. From Wordnik.com. [Toytown Germany - Germany feed] Reference
Aye, something of the sort, the servant replied in Plattdeutsch, and later I learned that this dialect had been in full swing here, as well as the Frisian, for over a hundred years; the dikemaster and the overseers and the other landholders!. From Wordnik.com. [Paras. 199] Reference
The Dutch cognate zeggen , wouldn’t give you zagt, as I don’t know Plattdeutsch, I though perhaps you did. From Wordnik.com. [Obama in the rain, animated version.] Reference
(Pitcairn Island) Wut-a-way you Plattdeutsch (N. Germany, Ostfriesland) Moin Plattdeutsch (N. Germany, Nordfriesland) Moin moin Plattdeutsch (Münster Germany) Goden Dag Plattdeutsch. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10. Language, Race and Culture] Reference
Be taht Plattdeutsch or LOLGerman?. From Wordnik.com. [oh hai - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Plattdeutsch (Germany) Nau. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Supporter Dianne Feinstein: The Race Is Over, Make Hillary Veep] Reference
Plattdeutsch (Germany) Nee. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Supporter Dianne Feinstein: The Race Is Over, Make Hillary Veep] Reference
Does she sprachen Plattdeutsch?. From Wordnik.com. [LUKE IS BACK] Reference
Plattdeutsch. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
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