Meaning of Low Dutch | Babel Free

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Low German.

archaic

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Examples

“There were ſeveral of his Prieſts and Lawyers preſent, (as I conjectured by their habits) who were commanded to addreſs themſelves to me, and I ſpoke to them in as many Languages as I had the leaſt ſmattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spaniſh, Italian, and Lingua Franca; but all to no purpoſe.”

“The German is again sub-divided into South German or Gothic, Middle German, and Low German, or Low Dutch. … The Low Dutch is spoken by the people of Lower Saxony, Friesland, Holland, and Belgium.”

“The Teutonic family is divided into three great branches: the High-Dutch, the Low-Dutch, and the Scandinavian; [...] To the Low-Dutch, who dwelt mostly in the low countries near the mouths of the rivers flowing into the German Ocean, belong many of the North Germans, the Frisians, Hollanders, and our own English forefathers. [...] From the mouth of the Rhine to the mouth of the Oder the whole coast was inhabited by Low-Dutch folk, Saxons, and Frisians, who all contributed to the hosts which set out to win the fair lands of Britain.”

“At Hamburg, too, High-Dutch is the fashionable language; but I know that, a generation back, people of the highest position and education spoke Low-Dutch in their own houses, though of course they could also speak High-Dutch when it was wanted.”

“Low Dutch means both Low Frankish (or Netherlandish) and Low Saxon (or “Low German”).”

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