The language is called “ Old Prussian ” to avoid confusion with the German dialects Low Prussian and High Prussian, and the adjective “ Prussian ”, which is also often used to relate to the later German state.

The regional dialect of Low German spoken in Prussia ( or East Prussia ), Low Prussian, preserved a number of Baltic Prussian words, such as kurp, from the Old Prussian kurpi, for shoe ( in contrast to the standard German Schuh ).

Most of the German population of Warmia spoke High Prussian, while a small area in the north spoke Low Prussian ; southern Warmia was mostly populated by Polish-speaking Warmiaks.

The Low Prussian dialect predominated in East Prussia, although High Prussian was spoken in Warmia.

Hilferding ( 1862 ) and Parczewski ( 1896 ) confirmed a progressive language shift in the Kashubian population from their Slavonic vernacular to the local German dialect ( Low German Ostpommersch or High German, in eastern Kashubian areas also Low German Low Prussian ).

Some other North and South American Mennonites of Dutch and Prussian origin speak what is actually a Low German dialect, referred to as Plautdietsch, which is quite different from Pennsylvania German.

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.

Their East Low German dialect is still classified as Low Prussian, or simply Prussian.

But there was terror in the thirties when the Nazis were on the loose and in those days Low struck like lightning.

that was a nightmarish situation and Low was in his element.

Until he was four years old, van Vogt and his family spoke only a dialect of Low German in the home.

Low inflation was maintained around 2. 6 % annually.

Another famous abjuration was brought about by the Plakkaat van Verlatinghe of July 26, 1581, the formal Declaration of Independence of the Low Countries from the Spanish king, Philip II.

In the remainder of the war in the Low Countries he held high commands, and was present at the Battle of Fleurus.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Marlborough could not attack Dillingen because of a lack of siege guns – he was unable to bring any from the Low Countries, and Baden had failed to supply any despite assurances to the contrary.

Again an Expeditionary Force was sent to France, only to be hastily evacuated as the German forces swept through the Low Countries and across France in 1940.

A cultivar ' Walker's Low ' was named perennial of the year for 2007 by the Perennial Plant Association.

Eventually titled Temple of Low Men, their second album was released in July 1988 with strong promotion by Capitol Records.

Largely self-taught, he was greatly influenced by the realism and subject matter of the 17th-century Low Country masters.

Through marriage, the County of Flanders was joined with most of the rest of the Low Countries around 1400 AD, and it lost its independence.

In the Early modern period, the term Flanders was associated with the southern part of the Low Countries: the Southern Netherlands.

Low German was spoken throughout northern Germany and, though linguistically as separate from High German ( Hochdeutsch ) as from Dutch and English, is considered " German ", hence also its name.

Guy Fawkes ( 13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606 ), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

This was the first book of Masses by a native composer: in the Italian states of his day, most composers of sacred music were from the Low Countries, France, Portugal, or Spain.

His ministry expanded and he undertook tours of North America and the Low Countries, between which he was imprisoned for over a year.

Low sea-levels meant that Britain was still attached to the continent for much of this earliest period of history, and varying temperatures over tens of thousands of years meant that it was not always inhabited at all.

Hanover was thus a gateway to the Rhine, Ruhr and Saar river valleys, their industrial areas which grew up to the southwest and the plains regions to the east and north, for overland traffic skirting the Harz between the Low Countries and Saxony or Thuringia.

In the Low Countries, an ottavino was commonly paired with an 8 ' virginals, encased in a small cubby under the soundboard of the larger instrument.

Low Arab Sunni turnout threatened the legitimacy of the election, which was as low as 2 % in Anbar province.

IJscolf, a game resembling Colf with the added element of an ice-covered surface, was popular in the Low Countries between the Middle Ages and the Dutch Golden Age.

Crokinole is called knipsbrat (" flick-board ") in the Low German spoken by Mennonites.

This is opposed to Low German, which is spoken on the lowlands and along the flat sea coasts of the north.

West Low German, also known as Low Saxon (, ), is a group of dialects spoken in the northwest of Germany and adjacent territories of The Netherlands and Denmark.

The language area comprises the North German states of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia ( the Westphalian part ), Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony-Anhalt ( the northwestern areas around Magdeburg ) as well as the northeast of The Netherlands ( i. e. Dutch Low Saxon, spoken in Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel and northern Gelderland ) and the Schleswigsch dialect spoken by the North Schleswig Germans in the southernmost part of Denmark.

From the 14th to the 16th centuries, Middle Low German as spoken in the towns of the Hanseatic League was the established language, but was subsequently succeeded by High German as official language in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Beside Standard German, Low Saxon dialects ( Schleswigsch ) are spoken, as well as Danish ( Sydslesvigsk or Sydslesvigdansk ) and its South Jutlandic variant, furthermore North Frisian in the west.

Several dialects of Low Saxon ( Nedersaksisch in Dutch ) are spoken in much of the north and east and are recognized by the Netherlands as regional languages according to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

* Paraguay: 166, 000 Standard German-speakers ( including 18, 000 Mennonites, who don't speak Plattdeutsch or Mennonite Low German ); plus 20, 000 Mennonite Low German, spoken by Mennonites who live in Chaco and Eastern Paraguay The Mennonites emigrated to Paraguay from Chihuahua State ( in Mexico ), the Soviet Union, Canada, and Bolivia.

Alsatian ( Alsatian and ( literally Alsatian-German ); ; or Elsässerdeutsch ) is a Low Alemannic German dialect spoken in most of Alsace, a region in eastern France which has passed between French and German control many times.

Low German is more common in rural regions than in urban regions and more likely to be spoken by older Ditmarsians.

Dialects with strong Frisian substrates, including Low German and Low Franconian, are also spoken in West Frisia.

Region where Dutch Low Saxon | Low Saxon is spoken

It is one of the municipalities of Friesland, where the spoken language is not West Frisian ; instead, Stellingwerfs, a dialect of Dutch Low Saxon, is spoken here.

It is one of the municipalities of Friesland, where the spoken language is not West Frisian ; instead, Stellingwerfs, a dialect of Dutch Low Saxon, is spoken here.