Lowlands-L Anniversary Celebration

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Please click here to leave an anniversary message (in any language you choose). You do not need to be a member of Lowlands-L to do so. In fact, we would be more than thrilled to receive messages from anyone.
Click here to read what others have written so far.

About the story
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 ...

Mission

Lowlands-L is an automated worldwide electronic mail list for those who are interested in the languages and cultures of the lowlands adjacent to the coast of the North Sea and of Baltic Sea (the “Lowlands”).

The primary focus of Lowlands-L is on the Germanic languages and their cultural environments that developed and remain in the Lowlands (Dutch, Flemish, Zeelandic, Frisian, Low Saxon [Low German], Limburgish) as well as those that descended from these languages or from their predecessors and are used elsewhere (Afrikaans, Lowlands emigré varieties, Lowlands-based pidgins and creoles, and also English and Scots). Other languages and their cultural environments may be discussed within this context.


The basic goals of Lowlands-L

    • to facilitate global communication and collaboration among those who are interested in Lowlands languages, cultures and related topics

    • to promote and facilitate research and teaching of Lowlands languages and cultures

    • to promote the use of Lowlands linguistic and cultural data in general research and publications

    • to support efforts to protect, revive and advance endangered Lowlands languages or language varieties

    • to pay attention to minority Lowlands languages and cultures, including those that are being denied official recognition

    • to serve as a forum for exploring common and diverse features of Lowlands languages and cultures

    • to provide opportunities to enjoy and enhance mutual intelligibility among Lowlands languages in multilingual exchanges

    • to strengthen linguistic, cultural and social ties among users of Lowlands languages, their descendants and their friends


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