User:-sche/Low German

Index of past and present discussions

 * Beer parlour/2011/May (decision to use the header Low German, not Low Saxon, for nds)
 * Template talk:drt (RFDO discussion of the Dutch Low Saxon varieties drt, gos and twd)
 * Beer parlour/2012/March (discussion of the various Low German varieties; expressions of support for the merger of all Dutch varieties under one code, the merger of all German varieties under another, and the retention of Plautdietsch)
 * Beer parlour/2012/November (decision to deprecate the subvariety codes: pdt was unchanged; wep was merged into nds; act, drt, gos, twd, sdz, stl, vel were merged into nds-nl)
 * User talk:-sche/Archive/Low German (discussion of what to call the lects and whether or not to use nds-de)
 * Wiktionary talk:About Low German ([//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary:Requests_for_moves,_mergers_and_splits&oldid=19479412#Template:nds.2C_Template:nds-de.2C_Template:nds-nl permalink to WT:RFM]) (decision to deprecate the code nds and the header Low German, following all previous discssions)


 * User talk:-sche and User talk:-sche
 * User talk:Metaknowledge
 * User talk:Hippietrail
 * nds:Bruker Diskuschoon:Joachim_Mos


 * Thread:User talk:CodeCat/German words from Low German (for a change of pace, this is a discussion of the separation of modern Low German from Middle Low German)


 * Discussion may also take place on the talk pages of the lects' "About" pages:


 * Wiktionary talk:About Low German
 * Wiktionary talk:About German Low German
 * Wiktionary talk:About Dutch Low Saxon (currently a redlink)
 * Wiktionary talk:About Plautdietsch (currently a redlink)


 * The issue of frs and stq is intertwined:


 * [//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary:Requests_for_moves,_mergers_and_splits&oldid=19479412#Template:frs_-_Template:stq Wiktionary:RFM#Template:frs_-_Template:stq]
 * Beer parlour/2012/March
 * [//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary:Requests_for_moves,_mergers_and_splits&oldid=19479412#frs_to_gmw-fre Wiktionary:RFM#frs_to_gmw-fre]
 * Beer parlour/2013/January


 * User talk:-sche/Archive/Low German

West Germanic has been, at all stages of its development, difficult to pull apart into discrete languages without leftovers. As Ernst Kausen [//de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Germanische_Sprachen&diff=30157139&oldid=30062650 wrote of German]: "Die drei historischen Stadien — Althochdeutsch, Mittelhochdeutsch und Neuhochdeutsch — sind nur als Vereinigung von Dialekten greifbar, die verschiedenen Zweigen der obigen Klassifikation angehören." "The three historical stages — Old High German, Middle High German and New High German — are concrete only as unions of dialects which belong to different branches of the above classification scheme."