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About the story
What’s with this “Wren” thing?
   The oldest extant version of the fable we are presenting here appeared in 1913 in the first volume of a two-volume anthology of Low Saxon folktales (Plattdeutsche Volksmärchen “Low German Folktales”) collected by Wilhelm Wisser (1843–1935). Read more ...

Kleverländisch
Kleverlands

Cleves Franconian, Southern Guelder Franconian




Possibly a speaker of Cleves
Franconian, Anne of Cleves
(1515–1557) was one of the six
wives of England’s Henry VIII
(1491–1547).

Language information: Cleves Franconian (Kleverländisch, Kleverlands), which is also known as Southern Guelder Franconian (Zuid-Gelders), is a group of Low Franconian varieties spoken in Germany’s state of North-Rhine-Westphalia and in a small contiguous area of the Netherlands.
     This includes the dialects of Rheden, Mülheim on Ruhr, Cleves (Kleve, Kleef), Oberhausen, Essen-Werder, Gummersbach, Wuppertal, Duisburg, Venlo, Venray, Cuijk, Groesbeek and Zevenaar, also the dialects of Northern Limburg and those called Ostbergisch in Germany.
     Cleves Franconian is often called Niederrheinisch-Bergisch in Germany, and popularly the Cleves Franconian dialects tend to be lumped together with Low Saxon, a different language, under the labels Niederdeutsch or Plattdeutsch. Together with Limburgish it is often referred to as Rhein-Maasfränkisch or Rhein-Maasländisch.
    Being Low Franconian, it belongs to the same language sub-group as do Dutch and Afrikaans, and it is also very closely related to the Limburgish and Ripuarian varieties.

Map of Franconian (Frankish) Dialect Groups

Genealogy: Indo-European > Germanic > Western > Franconian > Low > Cleves-Gelderland

Author: Reinhard F. Hahn

Click to open the translation:
[Cuijk]
,
[Lijmers]
, [Venlo], [Mülheim], [Saarn], [Solingen]Click here for different versions. >

Cleves Franconian in the Wikipedia


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