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Wy sint weader en paar jår wyder en wyser. Eyn ding wat de Nysassiske Skryvwyse düdelik maket is dat ne ård standaard ne flinke brügge slån kan tüsken verskillende lüde. Wy hebbet al heyl wat versöken had üm meyr to leyren oaver en in disse nye skryvwyse. Dan is et ouk logisk üm oaver nen vervolgtrad nå to denken: standaardisering. Dår wåget sik de meyste lüde neet an, want dår kryg y geheid nen houp volk med up de achterste beyne. Mär toch solde et neet heyl verkeyrd weasen, want et leyvert flink wat vöärdeylen up. In dissen afsnid van de Wearldsproake Podcast bekyket wy wat et vöärdeyl der van is. Wo as en standaard der uut solde mütten seen, mag ylüde in de kommentaren byskryven.

In this final episode (Or is it...) of the Saxon Series, we delve into the wonders of social media, and what it has done for Low Saxon so far. Podcasts, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, SnapChat, TikTok... Which one(s) should we pick? And should we? We discover how the older generations are still a bit adverse to the idea of being on camera. They were raised in a time when cameras were newfangled things, far removed from their daily lives. Nowadays, everyone has a camera and a digital studio in their pockets. And everyone is much more digitally savvy. Is Low Saxon missing the boat?  Martin points out that there is minor coverage of Low Saxon or in Low Saxon online. Yet, as younger generations are increasingly more eager to know about their history, we see an uptick in content being created. Often, we see the images perpetuated of a language stuck in the previous century. But Martin notices more and more calls for serious language material.

Daniel Bögre Udell is meduprichter van WikiTongues, en bedryv wat spreakers van minderheidsspråken helpen wil üm öäre språke vaste to leggen en an to jagen.

Den blöden Chris Spenkelink, den as anders nooit sou druk was up nåbertraditys, düt ineynen unmündig med by et båkesleapen. Wat mag dat weasen? Vöärdracht: Martin ter Denge

Den Godfather van et Twentsk, Hermenegildus (Härmken) Felix Victor Maria Finkers, sköäv an by de Wearldspråke Podcast. Want dat had hee noch nooit dån düs dat leak em wal wat. Wy hebbet et van synen film De Beentjes van St-Hildegard, syne jöägd en skoletyd med Plat, syne oaversetting van Den Gloepensen Gruffalo, De Beatles, Daniël Lohues en noch nen heylen houp meyr. Lüstert mär.

As we finally enter the 21st century, Chris and Martin explore the dawn of the internet. They discuss the introduction of Low Saxon in schools, cultural expressions in Low Saxon, and devote a large chunk of this episode to the significance of the Low Saxon Wikipedia.

If you thought that the previous episode was gloomy, try this one! One of the most dramatic stories of a language in freefall, tumbling into the abyss. Or is it?

In this episode, we try to get into the 20th century, but there’s still some ground to cover in the 19th. So before we move into Low Saxon’s dark age, we must first discuss the events leading up to its sudden decline in the latter half, to a point where it was sort of actively ignored by the media and in education. We discuss how multiple things lead to the situation of today. Firstly, the waning influence of the Hanseatic League and thus the cohesion of the language as a centrally 'governed' phenomenon, aided by the rise of the nation states and 'improved' education.

In this episode, we'll answer the question of whether Low Saxon should be considered a language at all, and delve into its history. From its humble beginnings as Old Saxon, through its high tide as the most prestigious language of north-western Europe in the later Middle Ages, to its gradual descent towards its fringe status throughout the 17th and 18th Centuries. 

In this new series of podcasts, Low Saxon connaisseurs Chris Canter and Martin ter Denge bare all about the Low Saxon language and sass it up. In English, for a change, because that has been long overdue.

Nen tükker up den vrömden. Mär vulleydig integreerd. Dat is Dick ter Steege. As Höyvd Ankundigingen (Perschef) van et neaderlandske Centraal Bureau voor Statistiek geyt hee oaver de cyfers van Neaderland. En wo as dee in de oapenbårheid kummet. Dee cyfers hebbet betrekking up al unse leavens. 

Wat skeedt der as y nen tükker en nen sweyd uut Skåne by mekander settet? Künnet dee mekander verstån, te jå of te ney? Up ne skåle van 1 töt 10? Wat sint de oavereynkumsten tüsken de skandinaviske en neadersassiske språksituatys? Et sweydsk is stark döär et middelsassisk beinvloded, den vöärlouper van et sassisk sou as wy dat nudaags kennet. Wat verneamet wy dår nu noch van? In dissen podcast oaverbrügget wy 500 jår språkverandering. #Twents en #Zweeds.

Marc Wübbenhorst is en bysünder man. Neet enkel ümdat hee sik reddet med düütsk, neaderlandsk, neadersassisk, freesk en engelsk. Ouk neet ümdat hee wild is van Byleveld, wat volgens valske tungen neet besteyt. En neet eyns sou seyr ümdat hee in Grönningen studeerd hevt. Mär ümdat hee ne bysündere seekde hevt, wårdöär hee minstens 20 liter up nen dag mut drinken. Wy sprekket em oaver syne vöärleevde vöär byleveld, syn wark by Byleveld Marketing. Wördt der noch plat küürd in Byleveld? Jå, plautdietsch, van de mennoniten. Mär uns plat neet meyr. Marc küürt selv oustfreesk, want dår kümt syn volk weg. Ouk kan hee sik sou upwinden oaver dialektisme: Dat lüde eynkennig en stüg öär eygene blyvet volgen en neet wat van en ander dialekt willet weaten. Dårmed holdet see selv de språke klein en unbelangryk. En ouk syne seekde kümt an bud. Eyn up de 250.000 lüde hevt disse seekde, wårdöär de nyren en syne hypofyse neet good samenwarket. Vucht löpt der by em sou weader uut. Dårümme müt hee voordan blyven drinken. Ouk ’s nachtes. Mär Marc is nen positiven kearl. Hee hevt jüüst de publiciteit der med upesöcht, want meyr lüde müttet der van weaten. Inmiddels hebbet sou’n 300 miljoon lüde oaver de heyle wearld syne dokumentäre vöär nen britsken ümmeroop eseen. Jå en noch vöäle meyr! Gewoan lüsteren, is good vöär u.

In disse anderhalve stunde bespreaket Wearldspråke en ‘berôpsfrysk’ Henk Wolf et wal en wey van de situaty in freeskland en sassenland. En dår sint årdig wat oavereynkumsten tüsken. Et geyt oaver identiteit en eygenwysigheid... en wat hevt meneyrken Wolf med de Nysassiske Skryvwyse te maken???

Platstryder en podcaster Jan Graf makeden sik hellig oaver et feit dat neadersassisk med 6 miljoon sprekkers noch altyd gin eygenen ümmeroop hevt. Wår ligt dat an? In et gesprek kummet wy by de eygene språkattitudes van de sprekkers uut, marsjeret de sorben noch vöärby en besprekket wy wat wy van de freesken leyren künnet.  Jan Graf is nen grouten name in Noorddüütskland. As sanger makeden hee al name, mär hee warket ouk by de NDR as måndeliksen leaser van kolumns. Wyders is hee altyd gangs üm et anseen van de språke te verbetteren. Verleaden jår starteden hee syn eygen podcast: SPRAAK! (språke).

De Hanse wördt vake nöömd as vöärnaamste tyd vöär unse språke. Mär wat had dat nu echt kultureel te bedüden? Wat vöär de bouwstyl? Wat vöär politike uutwarkingen? En ouk, wat deade dat med de språken van Europa? Lüstert mär.

En bysunder fenomeen is de mööistewoordverkesing. Alle jåren stemmet lüde buten uwe en unse weatenskap oaver et ‘Aldermööiste Platte Woord van et Jår’. Vake sint dat olde, vergeatene wöörde, wår as gin menske noch wat med kan. Wår kümt dat toch van? Wee bedegt dee dinge? En wat künnet wy der med?

Drentsk-oaverysselsken skryver Chris Canter (her)untdekkeden en geskrivt uut 1672: de To Hooupe Kallinge van den Swarten Meyster en synen Knecht. Ne satiriske samenspråke tüsken Bommenbearnd en de düvel. Eyne van de öldste twentsk-achtige geskrivten dee wy kennet. En et is verraskend good te leasen ouk noch. 

Ne ümstreyden språkteory in de sassenkünde? Vandage een versöökpröätken oaver de Westfaalske Ekspansy, 'n versinsel en harsenspinsel van den olden Heeroma. Wårheid? Of rechtstreyks uut den dikken duum?

Ydereyne kan et, nüms weat wo as et kan. In dissen podcast neamet wy et allergrötste vrågstükke van de språkenkünde der by: wår kümt språke (in et algemeyn) weg? Wo kan et dat wy klanken maket en dår noch wat met bedüdet ouk? Wat segt gelöyve der oaver? Wy bespreaket de meyningen van nen psycholoog (Corballis), nen språkenkündigen (Everett) en nen grouten filosoof (Chomsky). En ouk Koko de Gorilla kümt an bud.