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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 ...
Zeelandic
Hugged
and honeycombed by the North Sea,
Zeeland is the homeland of many an historic
Dutch
seafarer who helped to establish
overseas creole languages.
Language information: Zeelandic varieties are very closely related to Western Flemish, being typologically intermediate
between Hollandish and Western Flemish. Zeelandic varieties are by many considered
to constitute a group or language in conjunction with them.
Overseas Dutch-based
creole languages seem to be partly based upon Zeelandic.
Some Zeelandic language
activists have been endeavoring to have their language varieties officially
recognized as a regional language of the Netherlands, so
far without
success. [Click
here to read more.]
Genealogy: Indo-European > Germanic > Western > Low German > Low Franconian > Southwestern
Historical Lowlands language contacts: English, Frisian
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