Northwest Low Saxon ( East Frisian- Saxon, Groningan)

[@lefterismagkoutas4430]

It's incredible that if you focus on your English understanding you will hear a weird sounding English and if you focus on your German you will hear a weird sounding German.

[@magical5181]

Just sounds Frisian to me as a Dutch person

[@somedonkus69420]

@@magical5181 I'm from Groningen and I have no trouble understanding and even speaking some of this language but Frisian is very different, it has a different origin. Its closed to Old English.

[@magical5181]

@@somedonkus69420 alright, thanks for the info.

[@Snoobert135]

As some one who speaks both languages yeah that’s exactly what this sounds like

[@petertroep9085]

He basically said that the building in the beginning boats had to pay toll and that after that the boats had to be pushed forward by sticks because they couldn't pull it anymore because the path besides the canal stopped existing around there.

[@gabrieldettmannb4509]

Very close to what old Anglo Saxon sounded like, also the closest language to modern English.

[@jordihubers6193]

Even closer to dutch and modern Frisian, its almost fully understandable for me. #dutchspeaker

[@schneeweichenmunster8416]

@@jordihubers6193 You know that the Lower Saxon speachroom is four times bigger than the dutch. It is close to dutch because it is one of the most western dialects of Low Saxon and very influenced by standard dutch.

[@amerdoom6491]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 and it's funny language

[@Ckultuur777theNLDS]

​@@jordihubers6193 "modern frisian" ? Dit is plat grunnings

[@NH-ge4vz]

For some perspective from Dutch speakers, this sounds exactly the same as the dialects in the northeast of the country and is mutually intelligible with standard Dutch.

[@henningbartels6245]

His words might be Low Saxon (Low German) but the sound of him speaking is very Dutch (Low Franconian) to me.

[@saturner420]

Dutch is full on germanic not low franconian, thats flamish what ur talking about

[@ikbintom]

@@saturner420 Low Franconian is a subgroup of West Germanic

[@ikbintom]

To me, German Low Saxon speakers always sound like they speak Gronings with a super heavy German accent 😄I suppose that goes both ways

[@NH-ge4vz]

@@saturner420 How uneducated are you about linguistics to confidently say this. Franconian language group is a hypothetical grouping of languages around the Rhine named after the Frankish tribes. Modern Dutch is more of a mishmash of Istvaeonic and Ingvaeonic (Frankish, Frisian and Saxon), but its classification remains Low Franconian.

[@dan74695]

@@ikbintom Proper Low Saxon from Germany doesn't sound like German.

[@saturner420]

But its a dutch guy talking with a light friesian accent?

[@petertroep9085]

No it's Gronings

[@Ballum_64]

Well, this dialect is based on a portion of Frisian substratum, as the population was Frisian before a language change to Lower Saxony (and then Dutch) took place.

[@griffinroads3156]

0:21 ayo what did he say???

[@MrBalletHippo]

Snikke: track boat

[@FlyingDoge1337]

snickers

[@haziq0007]

dis n**g*

[@ShadowValleys]

💀

[@wombathead87]

Old mate been watching too much blazing saddles

[@Seyone030]

Being dutch this is very easy to understand.

[@terrell112]

Lower Saxony the home of my 11th great- grandfather Tobias Von Cramer

[@karsnipperus7074]

Thats Gronings, a north-eastern Dutch dialect

[@dan74695]

Dutch Low Saxon, not Dutch.

[@ikbintom]

A dialect *of* Low Saxon *in* the Netherlands. It's related both to Drents, Twents, Achterhoeks in the Netherlands, and also to Low German dialects in Northern Germany, like Oostfrieslands (which is not Frisian!), Emslands, Oldenburgs. It is a sister language of Dutch, because hundreds of years ago, Gronings comes from Old Saxon (just like Drents, Oostfrieslands, and so on) whereas Dutch comes from Old Dutch. It has a special history!

[@dan74695]

@@ikbintom Oostfreeslandsk/Oostfreesk Sassisk

[@yldrmtimur4317]

better than high and standard German.Germany should use the official Low Saxon dialect

[@ikbintom]

I don't think there exists an official form of Low Saxon. Only regional forms.

[@DivedKhunal]

After the Hanseatic league declined, Low Saxon is no longer have higher social status.

[@mousely76]

boat, tree thats all i could hear qwq

[@zackgravity7284]

Low German > Standard German

[@saibot7218]

Kinda sunds like a Dane speaking Dutch 😊

[@jamesswindley9599]

Drunk English.

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

software = per-|i-si|-an

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

Page 476 Frisian or Friesian = n 1 a language spoken in the NW Netherlands, parts of N Germany, and some of the adjacent islands. 2 a speaker of this language or a native or inhabitant of Friesland.▪ adj 3 of or relating to this language, its speakers, or the peoples and culture of Friesland [C16: from L Frisii people of northern Germany]

[@croatianwarmaster7872]

This is a Dutch dialect.

[@unhatchedegg5463]

No, it's a different language.

[@dan74695]

@@unhatchedegg5463Is it mutually unintelligible with Dutch?

[@unhatchedegg5463]

@@dan74695 I would say I understand about 70% of this specific dialect. Dutch and low saxon are close but share a different developmental history.

[@ikbintom]

@@dan74695 It historically comes from Old Saxon, not from Old Dutch. Of course it has grown towards Dutch in the last 200 years, but the grammar is still very different, and the words are as similar to Dutch as they are to German

[@freesoftwareextremist8119]

Yeah for me (as a German from north Germany) the pronounciation seemed very Dutch, not Low German at all.

[@Victoria-ty9qv]

He sounds like he's from Yorkshire lol