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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 ...
Language information:
Middelsprake is a constructed language with no native speakers. It has been created by the translator. It is primarily based on modern Germanic languages. Ingmar Roerdinkholder: “Middelsprake (MS)
is en künstlig sprake dat ig ha konstruered. Det is en Intergermanisch meen sprake,
basered up de modern, levend West-Germanisch on Skandinavisch sprakes. De worde
af Dütisch, Engelisch, Nederlandisch, Danisch, Swedenisch, Frisisch, Nedersaksisch
on Nü-Norisch ha formed de basis for Middelsprake. Ig ha söked to de meen form
af dat worde, on ha maked en simpel on regelmatig grammatika to det. Warfor ha
ig konstruered MS? Ig ha doon dat fordat ig ha altiid lioved kreere sprakes,
likas du kan se in de Nederlandisch on Engelisch versions af miin introduktion.
Ig ware okso inspirered fran Interlingua, dat prechtig Romanisch künstlig sprake dat is alrede fimftig jare old, on is
en mennig better alternativ den de meer kenned Esperanto. Interlingua on Middelsprake er naturalistisch sprakes, on ene we kenne Spanisch,
Italianisch oller Romenisch schal forsta Interlingua uter he ha lerned det först.
Ig hope dat det same is so mid Middelsprake for Germanisch-sprekendes …
For mennisches
we er interessered in Middelsprake, ji kan frage mi per email to sende ju de
dokument “Concise Outlines of Middelsprake” (ingmar.roerdinkholder@worldonline.nl). Ig ha ennoch nik en website, doch det schal kom dis jaar, ig hope …”
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