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[edit] Angela Holtmann
I have just (9 April, 2005) registered as a new wikipedia user.
You may also find me at the German and Low German Wikipedia with the same user names.
[edit] Wikipedia: Babel
Here are some notes concerning my nds-3 status.
- I am (almost) a native speaker of Low German, but (only) with an East-Westphalian dialect. Therefore, there may (from time to time) occur some spelling "mistakes" in my contributions to the Low German wikipedia. Nevertheless, I consider it very important not to forget about the "old language", which is nowadays rarely spoken by younger people. (I think this is, because most older people did not think that it was important to speak it and so always switched to German when speaking e.g. with their grandchildren. My grandparents, for example, could not speak a single word of German when they started going to school - this is, of course, long ago -, but then were taught it and told that Low German was just a language of "farmers" or non highly educated people.)
- There no real spelling rules for Low German because of its variety of dialects. Even if you just walk from one town to a neighbouring one, there happen to be differences within the pronunciation. (That is why I put the "mistakes" in the previous paragraph into quotation marks.) The rules mostly applied to the texts in the Low German Wikipedia are those of Sass reflecting more or less the Northern Low Saxon dialects.
--Angela H.
