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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 ...
Brabantish
Antwerp—one
of many important places in
culturally and linguistically multi-layered
Brabant on both sides of the border
between Belgium and the Netherlands
Language information:
Brabantish (also Brabantic or Brabantian) is one of the main dialect groups of Dutch. It
is used
in
the
Netherlands
province
of
Northern
Brabant (Noord-Brabant)
and in the Belgian provinces Antwerp (Antwerpen) and Flemish Brabant (Vlaams-Brabant). The varieties of Flemish Brabant have Flemish substrates. Standard Dutch is
partly based upon Brabantish.
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more.]
Genealogy: Indo-European > Germanic > Western > Low German > Low Franconian > Dutch > Brabantish
Historical Lowlands language contacts: Dutch, Flemish, Zeelandic, Limburgish
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