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D.E Copre Plautdietsch Books
D.E Copre Plautdietsch Books
D.E. Copre Plautdietsch Books has many different books that you are able to take a look at for free, including some great Grammar Courses.
Plautdietsch Resources
Plautdietsch Resources
by Loren Koehler
by Loren Koehler
Free dictionary, writing tools, and reference materials for Plautdietsch.
Plautdietsch Verb Conjugation
Plautdietsch Verb Conjugation
Online tools to conjugate Plautdietsch verbs.
D'Friesens
D'Friesens
D'Friesens have some of the best Low-German resources for children out there! I love their Sunday School materials, as well as their book series titled "Jieda Dach met Jesus". Each book is a collection of short stories where a Biblical lesson is learnt. The books are extremely affordable, especially if you order them directly from them.
They also have a very helpful tool on their website where you can find many different Low-German Songs simply by searching the song title in English or High-German.
Onse Jeschicht
Onse Jeschicht
by George Rempel
by George Rempel
An oral telling of Old Colony Mennonite History in Plautdietsch in 100 segments on YouTube.
Available on CD or USB by contacting De Brigj Radio, based in Aylmer, Ontario, Canada.
Five Centuries of Anabaptist History Presentation
Five Centuries of Anabaptist History Presentation
by Kennert Giesbrecht
by Kennert Giesbrecht
Kennert Giesbrecht presents Five Centuries of Anabaptist History: Understanding the Low German Mennonite Story. In recognition of Mennonite Heritage Week and the 500th anniversary of the Anabaptist movement, Kennert offers insights into the journey of the Anabaptists from their beginnings to the present day.
Enne Welt, nicht vonne Welt. Een Film äwa dän Aunfank von de Mennonitenjemeent
Enne Welt, nicht vonne Welt. Een Film äwa dän Aunfank von de Mennonitenjemeent
Hermann Heidebrecht (Bielefeld, Deutschland)
Hermann Heidebrecht (Bielefeld, Deutschland)
A journey of the Anabaptists from their beginnings to the present day in Plautdietsch.
Conform: The Mennonite Migration to Mexico of the 1920s
Conform: The Mennonite Migration to Mexico of the 1920s
by Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies
by Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies
CONFORM tells the fascinating story of the nearly 8,000 Mennonites who left Manitoba and Saskatchewan for northern Mexico in the 1920s, in the largest mass emigration in Canada's history.
Mennonite Heritage Village
Mennonite Heritage Village
"To preserve and exhibit, for present and future generations, the experience and story of the Russian Mennonites and their contributions to Manitoba."
Tales from the Mennonite Heritage Archives
Tales from the Mennonite Heritage Archives
by Conrad Stoesz & Dan Dyck
by Conrad Stoesz & Dan Dyck
Tales from the Mennonite Heritage Archives is a weekly radio show and podcast created by Conrad Stoesz, the archivist at the Mennonite Heritage Archives, with Dan Dyck. Each 15 minute episode Dan Dyck explores the Mennonite experience through materials, interviews, and stories connected to the Mennonite Heritage Archives.
Available on your favourite podcast platform.
Plautdietsch: Origins, Development and State of the Mennonite Low German Language
Plautdietsch: Origins, Development and State of the Mennonite Low German Language
by Reuben Epp
by Reuben Epp
A paper on Plautdietsch written by Reuben Epp.
Includes interesting facts such as:
The Low German of the Hanseatic League (a powerful trading network in Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries, stretching all the way from the East of England to the heart of Russia) largely displaced Latin as business and official language.
Most surviving Old Low German (also known as Old Saxon) literature exists only in fragments. Still, one surviving work is the poem Heliand (Saviour), written around the year 850 by an unknown author.
Martin Luther himself grew up in a Low German neighbourhood.
Menno Simons began writing in local dialects after his departure from Witmarsum in West Friesland in about 1536.
"This paper attempts to describe the origins of Plautdietsch, how it became the tongue of the Netherlandic-Prussian-Russian Mennonites, where it fits into the mosaic of the Low German family of dialects, and where its literary development stands in relation to other dialects of Low German."
The following are direct quotes from: Epp, Reuben. 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘴𝘤𝘩: 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘴, 𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘸 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦. Kelowna, British Columbia.
As a result of the business activities of the Hanseatic League coupled with the territorial expansions of the Teutonic Order of Knights, Low German peoples had spread across northern Europe to the extent that the language was spoken in the highest circles from Brügge to Memel and from Bergen to Novgorod. 𝐈𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
By the end of the sixteenth century, the Hanseatic world together with its business, political and cultural influences had so deteriorated that it disappeared entirely in the seventeenth century. Along with it went the Low German written language. Since the Low German language had grown to international importance as the language of the Hanseatic League, its future was tied to that of the League.
𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒, 𝑖𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒. Low German gradually ceased being the overall written language and yielded to the High German of the successful south.
𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐋𝐨𝐰 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐋𝐨𝐰 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞.
Oba Yo Blog
Oba Yo Blog
The Oba Yo Blog contains some educational as well as humorous blog posts. They do not use the Plaudietsch Bibel/Ed Zacharias orthography, however.
University Theses on Plautdietsch
University Theses on Plautdietsch
Some Theses on Plautdietsch – with Summaries.pdfa_PLAUT_Quiring.pdfPage updated
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