Information About

Plautdietsch

	states	Germany , Canada , United States , Russia , Ukraine , Belize , Paraguay , Mexico , Bolivia
	speakers	260,710 – 318,500Probably less than 300,000 Plautdietsch speakers out of nearly 8 million Low German speakers Epp, pp 102-5
	familycolor	Indo-European
	fam2	Germanic
	fam3	West Germanic
	fam4	Low German
	fam5	East Low German

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SEE ALSO

East Low German

Pennsylvania German

Hutterite German (not closely related linguistically, but also used primarily by a religious group)

Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church , a Low German Mennonite Church, Kansas, USA

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REFERENCES

De Smet, Gilbert 1983: 'Niederländische Einflüsse im Niederdeutschen', in: Gerhard Cordes and Dieter Möhn (eds.), ''Handbuch zur niederdeutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft'', Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, ISBN 3-503-01645-7, pp. 730 - 761.

Epp, Reuben ''The Story of Low German & Plautdietsch'', Reader's Press, 1996. ISBN 0-9638494-0-9

Kjenn jie noch Plautdietsch, Herman Rempel, 1987

De Bibel, United Bible Societies, 2003

FURTHER READING

''De Bibel'', Kindred Productions, 2003. ISBN 0-921788-97-5

Epp, Reuben ''The Spelling of Low German and Plautdietsch'', Reader's Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-9638494-1-0

Rempel, Herman ''Kjenn Jie Noch Plautdietsch? A Mennonite Low German Dictionary'', PrairieView Press, 1995. ISBN 1-896199-13-5

Thiessen, Jack ''Mennonite Low German Dictionary / Mennonitisch-Plattdeutsches Wörterbuch'', University of Wisconsin, 2003. ISBN 0-924119-09-8

EXTERNAL LINKS

Was ist Plautdietsch (in German )

Plautdietsch-Freunde e.V. (Germany based NGO, world wide documentation and promotion of Plautdietsch)

Opplautdietsch.de - Plautdietsch Radio e.V. Detmold, Germany

Plautdietsch.ca - written and audio resources

Dialect Literature and Speech, Low German from the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia

Pennsylvania German vs Plautdietsch among Mennonites

Plautdietsch online Dictionary and grammar guide

Peter Wiens - a German Plautdietsch blogger

Plautdietsch course (project)