Greetings Dan,
I am also American of Prussian and German blood (about 50-50
of each). Also, I am far from a linguistic expert.
The reason for my bringing up the subject of Prussian language
was the site I had accidentally run across about three years ago.
With luck and pure luck only, I have found this same site today
by going to www.google.com
Then enter Prussian Language Reconstructions
click on Prussian Language Reconstructions
This will better explain what I was trying to present as my original
message was from memory of this same site from at least three
years ago.
Also, they have since added other sites that seem to deal with this
same subject, but I have not had the time to skim through yet.
To make a long story short, there are at least two organizations
mentioned in the "Prussian Language Reconstructions" site that
are trying to revive the Prussian language, Prussian heritage and
Prussian lifestyle. I would assume this initiative to be quite like
organizations in America trying to preserve American Indian
languages before they are lost to history.
Lengthily articles, yes. But I think the insight they bring forth would
explain how the Prussian language, culture and lifestyle blanketed
the rest of Germany and also into other low German speaking counties.
Regards,
Robert Lipprandt
(South Florida)
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan & Lynn Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 8:30 PM
Subject: [WFA] Re:Something precious was lost
> Robert--
>
> It has been my understanding that "modern" German (What is the correct
> term? Court? Schrift? other--?) derived from High (-land) German, while
> the Low German spoken in the lowlands of the north (evolved from the old
> Saxon language) fell by the wayside. I've come across a number of sites
> dedicated to preservation of Low German/Plattedeutsch. (This is from an
> American with admittedly imperfect knowledge of the history of the
culture,
> so corrections are welcomed.). Among the sites:
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1615/rhahn/low-saxon/index-engl.htm
> http://www.rostra.dk/platt/platspro.htm
>
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1615/rhahn/lowlands/links_neddersassisch.htm
>
> Dan Steffen
>
>
> At 11:33 PM 1/24/01 +0100, you wrote:
> >Message: 14
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:59:13 -0500
> >charset="iso-8859-1"
> >Subject: Re: [WFA] Something precious was lost.
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >Sort of.
> >
> >A few years ago, I accidentally ran across a web site devoted to the
> >preservation of the Prussian Language, Prussian Life and Prussian
> >Heritage. It even gave examples of the style of letters of the Prussian
> >written language vs. regular German (low German?), different umlauts
> >and different language sentence structure rules. It was (the site) in
> >English because I would not have been able to get through so much
> >material if I had to translate it all.
> >
> >The article was quite lengthily (many pages) and if I had to tell you
> >where I found it, I could not. But, it seems I was researching Ost
> >Preußen at the time as my mothers family is from Kletellen, Kreis
> >Niederung.
> >
> >I guess, all things researchable are on the web and information never
> >really dies on the Internet, as do counties and individuals.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Robert Lipprandt
>
>
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