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| East Frisian Low Saxon differs from Northern Low Saxon in several aspects, which are often linked to Frisian heritage. The language originally spoken in East Frisia and Groningen was Frisian, so the current Low Saxon dialects of East Frisia, as part of the ] dialects, build on a Frisian substrate which has led to a large amount of unique lexical, syntactic, and phonological items which differ from other Low Saxon variants. Some Old Frisian vocabulary is still in active speech today. | East Frisian Low Saxon differs from Northern Low Saxon in several aspects, which are often linked to Frisian heritage. The language originally spoken in East Frisia and Groningen was Frisian, so the current Low Saxon dialects of East Frisia, as part of the ] dialects, build on a Frisian substrate which has led to a large amount of unique lexical, syntactic, and phonological items which differ from other Low Saxon variants. Some Old Frisian vocabulary is still in active speech today. | ||
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Not to be confused with East Frisian language.| East Frisian Low German | |
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| East Frisian Low Saxon | |
| Ōstfräisk | |
| Native to | Germany |
| Region | East Frisia |
| Native speakers | (undated figure of 230,000 in East Frisia (Lower Saxony) Germany, 3,000 in other countries) mainly older adults |
| Language family | Indo-European |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | frs |
| ISO 639-3 | frs |
| Glottolog | east2288 |
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East Frisian Low German or East Frisian Low Saxon is one of the Northern Low Saxon dialects, a West Low German dialect spoken in the East Frisian peninsula of northwestern Lower Saxony. It is used quite frequently in everyday speech there. About half of the East Frisian population in the coastal region uses the language. A number of individuals, despite not being active speakers of Low Saxon, are able to understand it to some extent. However, both active and passive language skills are in a state of decrease.
East Frisian Low Saxon is not to be confused with the Eastern Frisian language; the latter, spoken by about 2,000 individuals in the Saterland region, is a Frisian language, not Low German.
There are several dialects in East Frisian Low Saxon. There are two main groups of dialects. The dialects in the east, called Harlinger Platt, are strongly influenced by Northern Low Saxon of Oldenburg. The western dialects are closer to the Low Saxon Language spoken in the Dutch province of Groningen, Gronings.
East Frisian Low Saxon differs from Northern Low Saxon in several aspects, which are often linked to Frisian heritage. The language originally spoken in East Frisia and Groningen was Frisian, so the current Low Saxon dialects of East Frisia, as part of the Friso-Saxon dialects, build on a Frisian substrate which has led to a large amount of unique lexical, syntactic, and phonological items which differ from other Low Saxon variants. Some Old Frisian vocabulary is still in active speech today.
East Frisian features frequent use of diminutives, as in the Dutch language, e.g. kluntje ‘lump of rock sugar’. In many cases, diminutives of names, especially female ones, have become names of their own. For example: Antje (from Anna), Trīntje (from Trina = Katharina) etc.
The dialects spoken in East Frisia are closely related to those spoken in the Dutch province of Groningen (Grunnegs, Grünnigs) and in Northern Drenthe (Noordenvelds). The biggest difference seems to be that of loanwords (from Dutch or German, resp.).
| East Frisian Low Saxon | Gronings | West Frisian | Northern Low Saxon | English |
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| höör | heur | har | ehr | her |
| mōj | mooi | moai | scheun | beautiful, nice, fine |
| was | was | wie | wer | was |
| geböören | gebeurn | barre | passeern | to happen |
| prōten | proaten | prate | snakken | to talk |
The standard greeting is Moin (moi in Gronings), used 24 hours a day.
External links
- Low Saxon Office at the Ostfriesische Landschaft
- Ostfreeske Taal
- Diesel - dat oostfreeske Bladdje, the trilingual East Frisian newspaper
- Project for an alternative Orthography
- Dictionary and Grammar
Notes
- https://oostfraeisk.org
- East Frisian Low German at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) [REDACTED]
- Marron C. Fort: Niederdeutsch und Friesisch zwischen Lauwerzee und Weser
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