Lowlands-L Anniversary Celebration

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What’s with this “Wren” thing?
The oldest extant version of the fable we are presenting here appeared in 1913 in the first volume of a two-volume anthology of Low Saxon folktales (Plattdeutsche Volksmärchen “Low German Folktales”) collected by Wilhelm Wisser (1843–1935). Read more ...

List of translations with audio files

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· Afrikaans, Garib/Griqua
· Afrikaans, Standard
· Arabic
· Belarusian
· Chabacano Caviteño
· Chinese, Mandarin 1
· Chinese, Mandarin 2
· Chinese, Cantonese
· Bikol, Legazpi
· Coptic
· Cornish
· Danish
· Dutch, Brabantish, Antwerp
· Dutch, Brabantish, Merchtem
· Dutch, Flemish, Western, Nieuwpoort
· Dutch, Flemish, Western, Roeselare
· Dutch, Ljouwert Stadfrys
· Dutch, Standard
· English, African American Vernacular
· English, American, New Hampshire
· English, American, Standard Eastern
· English, American, Western
· English, Canadian, Western
· English, Australian (Ocker)
· English, British, General
· English, Canadian, Eastern
· English, Canadian, Newfoundland
· English, England, Hampshire
· English, England, Thames Estuary
· English, England, South Yorkshire & Derbyshire
· English, Middle (1)
· English, Middle (2)
· English, Old
· Esperanto
· Faeroese
· Farsi
· Finnish
· Folkspraak
· Franconian, Cleves, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Saarn
· Frisian, Westlauwer
· Frisian, Saterland
· German, Eastern Prussia
· German, General Standard
· German, Lower Bavarian
· German, Missingsch, Bremen
· German, Missingsch, Hamburg
· German, Missingsch, Wilhelmshaven
· German, Northern Standard
· German, Old
· Gothic
· Hungarian
· Indonesian
· Interlingua
· Javanese
· Jutish, Southern
· Jutish, Western
· Kapampangan
· Korean
· Latin (1)
· Latin (2)
· Limburgish, Venlo
· Limburgish, Vliermaal
· Liwwarders
· Low Saxon (Low German), Achterhoek
· Low Saxon (Low German), Drenthe, Hoogeveen
· Low Saxon (Low German), Drenthe, Norg
· Low Saxon (Low German), Drenthe, Salland
· Low Saxon (Low German), Drenthe, Zuidwolde
· Low Saxon (Low German), Eastern Friesland
· Low Saxon (Low German), General Northern [Original]
· Low Saxon (Low German), Hadeln
· Low Saxon (Low German), Hamburg
· Low Saxon (Low German), Mecklenburg
· Low Saxon (Low German), Mennonite, Khortitza
· Low Saxon (Low German), Mennonite, Molochna
· Low Saxon (Low German), Münsterland, Steinfurt
· Low Saxon (Low German), Northern Oldenburg
· Low Saxon (Low German), Olland (Altes Land)
· Low Saxon (Low German), Stellingwerven
· Low Saxon (Low German), Westphalia, Osnabrück (1)
· Low Saxon (Low German), Westphalia, Osnabrück (2)
· Maltese
· Middelsprake
· Missingsch, Bremen
· Missingsch, Hamburg
· Missingsch, Wilhelmshaven
· Norwegian (Bokmål)
· Pangasinan
· Persian
· Portuguese, Portugal
· Portuguese, Brazil
· Rhaeto-Roman
· Russian
· Saxon, Middle
· Saxon, Old
· Stadfrys
· Stadi (Helsinki Finnish Slang)
· Sundanese
· Swedish
· Tagalog, General
· Tok Pisin (Neo-Melanesian)
· Trasianka
· Turkic, Crimean
· Turkish (1)
· Turkish (2)
· Ukrainian
· Walloon (Liège)
· Walloon (Namêche)
· Welsh
· Yiddish
· Zeelandic of Kwadendamme