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Old Saxon, the ancestor of modern Plattdeutsch, is a branch of Old Low German, not vice versa. Old Low Franconian (ancestor of Dutch) is another branch of Old Low German. This article doesn't take account of the place of Frisian, as forming with English a distinct branch (Anglo-Frisian, North Sea Germanic, Ingvaeonic) of the West Germanic languages. Frisian is continental, but closer to English than to the Old Low German dialects. Old Low German is not an ancestor of Old English; Low German and Anglo-Frisian are branches of West Germanic. Standard German and other forms of High German, such as the Swiss German dialects and Yiddish, are not descended from Old Saxon, and the article doesn't make this clear. Another model of the Germanic language family classes Anglo-Frisian, Low German and High German as distinct branches of Germanic, along with North and East Germanic, but with perhaps more shared features than they have with the other branches. North Sea Germanic shares features with North Germanic that they do not share with other branches.—Copey--203.109.252.196 05:25, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
As can be read in the edit summaries, User:Ulritz's anti-Dutch bias has resulted in the removal of accurate and referenced information. Because of the 3 revert rule I cannot revert the edits now, but can assure Ulritz I will. This kind of behaviour should not be tolerated on wikipedia. Rex 14:36, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
Do not alter my comments.Ever again. This doesn't concern Old Church Slavonic, this concerns Old Saxon and Old Saxon was close to Old Dutch which was attested before Old Saxon. Care to explain the true reason why you removed the reference to it?Rex 15:24, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
No Antman, who once again pretends to know something on linguistics, Old Low Franconian and Old Dutch are two different things. Hence 2 articles. Rex 15:20, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
And I would note the following intros "German, also High German" and "P.A German more commonly P.A Dutch" Rex 20:41, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
My point is you have no point.Rex 10:57, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Show me where Ulritz. Show me where. You're having more than enough trouble controling your own huge bias I suggest you stick to that. Rex 12:22, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
I want that, please give me that list with accompagning bias. I hope you like hard work because my edit count has 4 zeroes. Rex 09:45, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
As I thought. A lot of shouting but nothing to back it up. As always.Rex 20:59, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
Next time you accuse people, make sure you have facts to back up your claims. (Ps, the way you handled the IQ question ... typical) Rex 10:08, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
A simple IQ test taken as a child isn't representative for an adult, even I knew this and I have an IQ of 121. Rex 15:57, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
No that IP wasn't me, I haven't got the faintest who that was. Nevertheless, of course age drastically changes the results of an IQ-test, making a few jig saw puzzles is different from a scientific test. Rex 13:50, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
I mentioned yor IQ in a ps and you made that into the main conversation, mainly because you have no point in the real discussion.Rex 19:58, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
No not really, I've given my arguments, while you've done nothing at all. I suggest you leave this talk page and come back when you have a bit more other than insults to support your view. Rex 07:53, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Was Old Saxon really spoken on the North Sea coast? I would expect Frisian to be spoken in that area at that time, and Saxon a bit futher inland. And where was the language spoken in Denmark? --195.0.221.197 (talk) 15:01, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Is this language still spoken by anyone, maybe scholars? I assume it is. The reason I'm asking is because I think it would be amazing to have someone read aloud bits of the surviving texts for people to have a chance to hear the language. I'm watching a show on History about the Saxons, and they are either mimicking the language or actually speaking it. I speak German and English, so I can make fair sense of what they're saying. But I'm not sure if they're just "fudging" it or speaking the real language. I read (or tried, I should say, lol) parts of the old texts. I just can't get the phonics down. :) If anyone knows more about this, please let me know. I'm going to do some research and see if there is any way we can possibly add a recording of the language. I think it would be very cool and improve the language articles greatly! Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.142.163.33 (talk) 23:48, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Some of the IPA in the section is a complete mess, the random capital vowels everywhere make it very hard to read, especially given capital 'i's look like lowercase 'L's. Can someone fix it? I don't know enough about the language to be sure what the corrections should be.
(And I'm not loving all the bolded, bracketed additions in the translation of the text sample either really, couldn't that be tidier? Some of it seems completely superfluous, especially where there are questions marks in it. Not very encyclopaedic.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.165.129.111 (talk) 09:37, 21 December 2014 (UTC)