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Internet Exercises
Plattdeutsch Project Key
German Honors II
March, 2002
Log on to your computer and click the Netscape Communicator icon on your desktop (it looks like a lighthouse). In the “Location” box at the top of your screen, type in the following URL to go to the Robert Shea German Home Page.
Go to www.serve.com/shea and click on “Comprehensive Student Workpage”
1. What language family does Plattdeutsch belong to? Hochdeutsch?
Go to www.yahoo.de and find the link “Sprachen”? Click on this link. When you see the list of languages look for the “Plattdeutsch” link. Not the “Deutsch” link. Ignore this and be sure to click on the “Plattdeutsch” link. Click on the “Plattdeutsch today” link.
1 Under the title of the link “Plattdeutsch today”, it is explained what the purpose of this site is. Translate this into English__who speaks Low German when and where__________________
2
Record what internet address we are at? __http:/www.is-bremen.de/~ins/ndintroh.htm__
3 In what countries is Plattdeutsch spoken? (Niederdeutsch is a synonym for Plattdeutsch) __Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, several states of the former Soviet Union, North and South America, Austrailia, South Africa.
4 What two dialects of Plattdeutsch are for practical purposes extinct today? And what has caused this to be the case? ______Hinterpommersch and Niederpreussisch because of the second world war ___
5
In how many German states (within Germany) can one here Plattdeutsch?
_8__
6
Looking at the map on the webpage (and only at the map to keep
things uncomplicated), what are the three major dialects of Plattdeutsch in
West Germany and what are the three major dialects in East Germany? (mark which three for the East and which for
the West)
__In West Germany – Ostfaelisch, Westfaelisch und Nordniedersaechsisch
__In East Germany – Mecklenburg-Vorpommersch,
Mittelpommersch und Maerkisch-
Brandenburgisch.
8. How many people can speak Plattdeutsch “good” and “very good” according to the last census? ________________5.6 million_______________________________________________________