Comments by "SaBa" (@saba1030) on "RobWords"
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@WaterShowsProd 😊
Well, the ancient Saxons were living in todays federal states of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg and partly Saxony-Anhalt (only the Saxony part).
Todays federal state of Saxony is by name only Saxon, as it got its name due to in those days usual wedding politics, the people of todays Saxony are the descendants of the ancient Slavic tribes = the Sorbic people.
The territories of the ancient Saxons didn't have "sound shift" like the rest of todays Germany, hence it never "discarded" the gender, since it never existed in the Lower-Saxon language 😊
When my English sister in law visited us over here in Bremen, one of the shop had a sign outside the shop "wi hept open"
pronounced like "ve hapt open"
= we are (have) open, she looked quite confused when I read it out to her 😁
Sett yi daal, wullt yi een Koffie or
(sit you down, want/would you (like) a Coffee or)
een Tee or wullt yi wat anners
(a Tee or want/would you (like) what else)
drinken?
(drink?).
Those sentences above might sound confusing to you, but when spoken and pronounced properly, you can here the simularity 😊
Just writing it here without hearing it sets limits, unfortunately...
My London born spouse and people speaking high German only = don't understand Lower-Saxon language, but the Dutch living at the two Holland regions can easily chat with people from north-west Germany when speaking Lower-Saxon language 😁
And reading Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish is easy as well ...probably all related to the times of the Hanseatic League...as Lower-Saxon language was the official language at that time...
Btw, todays English term "Welsh" origins from the ancient Saxons, as they were calling ALL tribes living to the west of their territory (todays England) "de Welschen/the Welsh", and the meaning is "the other ones, the strangers, the ones from abroad".
Knowing, that the English get called "sassenachs", even there you're using Lower-Saxon language, as Sassen = Saxons.
Hence = Lower Saxony = Neddersassen...
"dd" = "th" =
Netherlands = Lowlands 😁
And Dutch = well, you're actually calling the Dutch = German...
It origins from the ancient term "Thiutisk = us people", which is what the ancient tribes living in todays Germany were calling themselves, and it evolved over the last 2.000ish years to = tuisk, tysk, duits, dutch, teutsch, düütsch, deutsch 😂
Greetings to Cymru from Bremen 😊🍻
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@WaterShowsProd 😊
No, high German and Lower-Saxon have the same roots = Indogermanic, but developed differently due to the sound shift, which happened all over Germany at 375/376, when the Huns arrived, not though in the regions, where the ancient Saxons used to live = as there the "Continental transmigration" didn't happen, when looking at a map, the people simply did a "short cut", moving rather south in a "straight line", considering the circumstances ...
I've looked up about the German language, and Wikipedia has a very good description about it in English 😊 Very recommendable !
Btw, in Germany 5 languages get spoken =
high German/the official language !!
Lower-Saxon language/spoken all along the north sea coast/Baltic Sea coast lines
Sorbic = spoken in some east parts of Germany /ex territories of the ancient Slavic tribes/Sorbic people
Bavarian = Bavaria
All of those languages have their regional dialects as well, like all languages have that.
Wow, learning Asian languages sounds tough, as that includes learning the different writing as well ...
I wish you all the best with very foggy greetings from Bremen 👋 🍻
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@kgbgb3663
Well, Frisian language same as Lower-Saxon language, both are the roots (partly) of todays English...and like all languages, they have their regional dialects as well...
As I'm speaking Lower-Saxon language, I see lots of simularities to todays English...
The words are very simular, or even the same, but get pronounced different, like
Lower-Saxon = English
he,se,mie, yi = he, she, me, you
dat/wat = that/what
de = the (no der, die, das)
us = us
as = as
water = water
school = school
broken = broken
open = open
modder = mother "dd" = "th "
beer = beer
klock tein = ten o'clock
etc, etc...
While Dutch people from around Groningen would understand Lower-Saxon language, English people won't get a word due to the very different pronounciation 😅
Edit typo/autocorrect
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@kgbgb3663 😊
Well, going through all those different languages, just to learn high German, would be quite a challenge...
Difference is, that high German language has
"the = der, die, das"
.......= male, female, neutral
best thing to learn that is straight away, and not "around the corner" by learning other languages first, which might be simular...could get a bit confusing 😊
Have a nice weekend with greetings from Bremen 👋
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