The name Langeoog means Long Island in the Low German dialect.
They spoke a Low German dialect known as Plautdietsch.
In 1904 Kinau started publishing poetry and stories in his native Low German dialect.
He was cussing, all right, but in one of the Low Elvish dialects.
In rural parts of the region they still sometimes use today a Low German dialect called Heidjerisch.
The Low German dialects of Pomerania are included in the Pommersch group.
Various Low German dialects are understood by 10 million people, and native to about 3 million people all around northern Germany.
He did not understand the Low German dialect spoken in Münster and this made relations with his subjects problematic.
With time the -ne disappeared in most Low Franconian Dutch dialects.
The local population had to be either deported, or, when still speaking the original Low German dialects, Dutchified.
