Sentence examples for low german from inspiring English sources

The vocabulary of Swedish is mainly Germanic, either through common Germanic heritage or through loans from German, Middle Low German, and to some extent, English.

The Continental Saxons spoke a distinctive West Germanic brogue, Old Saxon, which is the ancestor of Low German.

fauteuil, "arm chair") and affär ("shop; affair"), etc. Cross-borrowing from other Germanic languages has also been common, at first from Middle Low German, the lingua franca of the Hanseatic league and later from standard German.

Standard German is a West Germanic language and is closely related to and classified alongside English, Low German, Dutch, and the Frisian languages.

The modern Low German dialects developed from Old Saxon.

The population of Lower Saxony regards itself as Low German, linked by a common ancient Saxon origin and the use of the Low German dialect known as Plattdeutsch.

New World Mennonite Low German: An Investigating of Changes in Progress.

The boundary line between the High and Low German languages passes through the mountains.

Long-term interest rates in most of Europe have fallen closer to the low German levels.

For centuries a form of Low German was used by seafaring men in North Sea ports.

The people of Holstein are mostly descendants of the Saxons and speak a Low German dialect.