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Plattdeutsch|plætˈdɔɪtʃ|
Also Platt-Deutsch.
[G., ad. Du. Platduitsch Low German, f. plat flat, low + Duitsch German.]
The collective name of those dialects of Germany which are not High German (see German n.2 2 b). Also attrib. Also ellipt. as Platt.
1814H. Weber Illustr. North. Antiq. 217 As the fragment [sc. Hildebrandslied] is evidently written in the dialect of the northern parts of Germany, now denominated Plat-t, or Low German, which was once nearly identical with the Anglo-Saxon, a great number of the words have been rendered into such as, with little variation, existed in the old English and Scottish. a1834Coleridge Table Talk (1835) I. 119 Originally..in the Platt-Deutsch of the north of Germany there were only two definite articles. 1867J. Macgregor Rob Roy on Baltic xix. 239 What a linguist this critic must be before he attempts a voyage such as we have described! First he must learn Norwegian, then Swedish,..then Platt (on the Elbe), [etc.]. 1886Strong & Meyer Outl. Hist. German Lang. 67 New-Low-German, or Plattdeutsch, so called from being spoken in the platte land or the low country. 1908T. G. Tucker Introd. Nat. Hist. Lang. 220 The Saxonic dialects, under the name of Nieder-Deutsch or Platt-Deutsch are still in regular use among the populace of North Germany. 1939L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 349 Lower Franconian is essentially Low Teutonic of the type represented by Flemish, Frisian, Old Saxon, and Platt⁓deutsch. 1942Amer. Pol. Sci. Rev. XXXVI. 537 At present, the speakers of the Lower Saxon, Plattdeutsch vernacular of Gelderland, of Frisian in Friesland, and of genuine Lower Frankish, Dutch dialects are all united in using Dutch as the language of school and church and as the medium of their common national allegiance. 1953Trans. Philol. Soc. 1952 135 The Plattdeutsch forms require discussion. 1970L. Deighton Bomber xxiv. 349 [He was] trying to understand Voss's fast guttural Plattdeutsch, as much like Dutch as German. 1973Word 1970 XXVI. 44 All informants felt that it was a loanword... A few said it was not good Platt, while others felt that it [sc. hauptsächlich] was thoroughly acceptable. 1977Trans. Philol. Soc. 1975 187 At first sight North Frisian seems to have more in common with the Plattdeutsch spoken in Schleswig than with other forms of Frisian, and so the question arises as to what justification there is for not considering Frisian to be a variety of local Platt. |