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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: West Low German, Hamburgisch dialect, Northern Low Saxon dialect, Brandenburgisch dialect, Mecklenburgisch dialect, Plautdietsch language, Missingsch, Gronings, Heliand, Tweants, Low Prussian dialect, Dutch Low Saxon, Pomeranian, Borbecksch Platt dialect, East Frisian Low Saxon, East Low German, Oost-Veluws dialect, Old Saxon, Westphalian language, Sallaans, Urkers, Plattmakers, Middle Low German, Eastphalian language, West-Veluws dialect, Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch dialect, East Pomeranian dialect, Plautdietsch-Freunde, Stellingwarfs, Berlin Brandenburgish dialects, Friso-Saxon dialects, Hermann Teuchert, Oldenburg dialect, Achterhooks, Mundart des Ostgebietes, Mundart des Weichselm ndungsgebietes, Holsteinisch dialect, Schleswigsch dialect, Mundart des K rzungsgebietes. Excerpt: Plautdietsch, or Mennonite Low German, was originally a Low Prussian variety of East Low German, with Dutch influence, that developed in the 16th and 17th centuries in the Vistula delta area of Royal Prussia, today Polish territory. The word is another pronunciation of Plattdeutsch, or Low German. Plaut is the same word as German platt or Dutch plat, meaning 'flat' or 'low' but formerly meaning 'intelligible', and the name Dietsch corresponds etymologically to Dutch Duits and German Deutsch (both meaning "German"), which originally meant 'ordinary language, language of the people' in all the continental West Germanic languages. The language (or groups of dialects of Low German) is spoken in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru, Honduras, Belize, and Argentina by over 300,000 Mennonites (Russian Mennonites). They are members of a religious group that originally fled from Holland and Belgium in the 16th century to escape persecution and eventually resettled in these areas. They introduced and develope...