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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 ...
Dutch (Variety of the Lijmers Region, The Netherlands)
Cleves Franconian
Language
information:
This dialect group of Gelderland’s Lijmers region is considered a part of Dutch but is transitional between Low Franconian and Saxon dialects. These days it tends to be considered a peripheral member of the Cleves Franconian group.
Genealogy: Indo-European > Germanic > Western > Low German > Cleves Franconian > Peripheral
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