Re: German+Hungarian question

An example of Low Saxon in the Netherlands, including sound:

http://www.lowlands-l.net/anniversary/index.php?page=achterhooks

You'll see that it's quite easy to understand for you, H

Ingmar

On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 17:12:31 +0200, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder@...> writes:
>> In the LS of my native town, Wenters (Dutch Winterswijk) in the Guelders
>> (Gelderland) Ächterhook (Dutch Achterhoek), <krigste> ["krIxst@) etc
also
>> has a short [I], while <kriegen> to get = ["kri:g=N] or ["kri:G@n].
>
>So the vowels are exactly the same in my home town dialect. :-)
>
>It's interesting -- my home town High German dialect is definitely
>influenced my the Low German that used to be spoken there, so the
>linkage to Dutch and even more often, to some West-Netherland's local
>language, is interesting (and not unexpected).  Talking to people in
>Groningen, I also found that some dialectal words had equivalents in
>some of those language, e.g. dialectal 'nölen' ~ [n9:ln=] in Hengelo
>dialect (I think its 'zeuren' in Standard Dutch, right?).
>
>

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