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Plautdietsch
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Plautdietsch () or Mennonite Low German is a Low Prussian dialect of East Low German with Dutch influence that developed in the 16th and 17th centuries in the Vistula delta area of Royal Prussia. The word Plautdietsch translates to "flat (or low) German" (referring to the plains of northern Germany). In other Low German dialects, the word for Low German is usually realised as Plattdütsch/Plattdüütsch or Plattdüütsk , – very often also as Plattdeutsch – but the spelling Plautdietsch is used to refer specifically to the Vistula variant of the language.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Plautdietsch
- Language.altname
- Plautdiitsch; Mennonite Low German
- Language.states
- Vistula delta region, Poland
- Language.region
- Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, United States, Uruguay
- Language.date
- 2007
- Language.minority
- Mexico (100,000+)
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Germanic
- Language.fam3
- West Germanic
- Language.fam4
- North Sea Germanic
- Language.fam5
- Low German
- Language.fam6
- Northern or Eastern?
- Language.fam7
- Low Prussian?
- Language.ancestor
- Old Saxon
- Language.ancestor2
- Middle Low German
- Language.ancestor3
- Modern Low German
- Language.iso3
- pdt
- Language.glotto
- plau1238
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- East Low German
- Country
- Canada
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- topic's main category
- Category:Plautdietsch language
- writing system
- Latin script
- native label
- Plautdietsch
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 261000
- Wikimedia language code
- pdt
- indigenous to
- Saskatchewan
- category for films in this language
- Category:Plautdietsch-language films
- different from
- Low German
- has grammatical gender
- neuter
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Encyclopedic overview
55 sectionsContents
- Migration history
- Speaker population and language maintenance
- Status
- Varieties
- Comparison with related languages
- Effects of the High German consonant shift
- Vowel shifts in various Germanic languages
- Unique developments
- Vowel lowering
- Vowel unrounding
- Diphthongization before g, k, ch [IPA x] and r, with possible loss of r
- Various other vowel equivalences
- Palatalization
- Influences and borrowings
- German
- Dutch
- Old Prussian and Baltic languages
- Russian or Ukrainian
- English
- Spanish
- Spelling
- Phonetics
- Consonants
- Vowels
- Grammar
- Articles
- Determiners
- Nouns
- Plurals
- Examples
- Possession
- Diminutive
- Adjectives
- Numerals
- Pronouns
- Personal pronouns
- Demonstrative pronouns
- Verbs
- Weak verbs
- Strong verbs
- Auxiliary, modal and anomalous verbs
- Participles
- Compound tenses
- Expressions relating to future plans
- Prepositions
- Syntax
- Text sample
- See also
- Notes
- Literature
- Dictionaries
- Grammars
- Further reading
- References
- External links
Plautdietsch () or Mennonite Low German is a Low Prussian dialect of East Low German with Dutch influence that developed in the 16th and 17th centuries in the Vistula delta area of Royal Prussia. The word Plautdietsch translates to "flat (or low) German" (referring to the plains of northern Germany). In other Low German dialects, the word for Low German is usually realised as Plattdütsch/Plattdüütsch or Plattdüütsk , – very often also as Plattdeutsch – but the spelling Plautdietsch is used to refer specifically to the Vistula variant of the language.
Plautdietsch was a Low German dialect like others until it was taken by Mennonite settlers to the southwest of the Russian Empire starting in 1789. From there it evolved and subsequent waves of migration brought it to North America, starting in 1873.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Plautdietsch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.