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PLAUTDIETSCH: Mennonite or Low German
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80,000 or more first language speakers and
20,000 second language speakers in Canada - Total
German mother tongue speakers in Canada including
standard German, 561,000 . Population total
all countries 400,000, of whom 150,000 use it
habitually. 110,735 or more in Latin America are
fairly monolingual.
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Region
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Southern Canada; Ontario, Saskatchewan,
Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia. Also spoken in
Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica,
Germany, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Paraguay, Russia
(Asia), Uruguay, USA.
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Alternate names
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LOW GERMAN, MENNONITE GERMAN, MENNONITEN
PLATT
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Classification
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Indo-European, Germanic, West, Low Saxon-Low
Franconian, Low Saxon.
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Plautdietsch
dictionary
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Jehaun 1 :1-14
Em Aunfank wea daut Wuaat, en daut Wuat wea bie
Gott, en Gott wea daut Wuat. Daut selwje wea em Aunfank
bie Gott.Derch am es aules jemoakt, en oone am es nuscht
jemoakt daut jemoakt es. En am wea Laewe, en daut Laewe
wea daut Licht fa de Mensche. En daut Licht schient enne
Diestanes, oba de Diestanes haft daut nich bejraepa. Doa
wea en Maun fonn Gott jeschekjt, dee heet Jehaun. Disa
kjeem fonn daut Licht Zeichnes to jaewe, daut dee Mensche
derch am aula sulle tom Gloowe kome.Hee wea nich daut
Licht, oba wea jeschekjt fonn daut licht to zeije.Daut
wea daut woarhauftje Licht, daut fa aule Mensche schient
dee enn dise Welt enenn kome.Hee wea enn dise Welt, en de
Welt wea derch am jemoakt; oba de Welt kjand am nich. He
kjeem no daut Sienje; oba siene eajne Mensche neeme am
nich aun. Oba aul dee, dee am aunneema, jeef he daut
Racht Gott siene Kjinja to heete, dee nich fonn Bloot uk
nich ut fleeshlichet Felange uk nich ut en Maun sien
Wele, oba fonn Gott jebuare sent. En daut Wuat wort
Fleesch - en Mensch - en wond unja onns, en wie sage
siene Harrlichkjeit soo aus en Foda sien eentsja Saen,
foll Jnod en Woarheit.
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