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Midsummer, also known as St John's Day, is the period of time centered upon the summer solstice, and more specifically the Northern European celebrations that accompany the actual solstice or take place on a day between June 19 and June 25 and the preceding evening. The exact dates vary between different cultures. The Christian Church designated June 24 as the feast day of the early Christian martyr St John the Baptist, and the observance of St John's Day begins the evening before, known as St John's Eve. These are commemorated by many Christian denominations. In Sweden the Midsummer is such an important festivity that there have been serious discussions to make the Midsummer's Eve into the National Day of Sweden, instead of June 6. It may also be referred to as St. Hans Day....
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Low German | Wikipedia audio article
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Low German
00:01:50 1 Geographical extent
00:01:59 1.1 Inside Europe
00:04:42 1.2 Outside Europe and the Mennonites
00:07:36 2 Nomenclature
00:09:50 3 Classification
00:12:08 3.1 A language or a mere dialect?
00:13:31 3.2 Legal status
00:14:57 4 Varieties of Low German
00:15:07 4.1 In Germany
00:15:42 4.2 In the Netherlands
00:16:47 5 History
00:16:56 5.1 Old Saxon
00:17:43 5.2 Middle Low German
00:18:27 5.3 Contemporary
00:18:42 5.3.1 Germany
00:21:07 5.3.2 Netherlands
00:22:44 6 Sound change
00:25:07 7 Grammar
00:25:31 7.1 Nouns
00:25:50 7.2 Dative den/dän
00:26:38 7.3 Verbs
00:29:01 7.4 Adjectives
00:29:43 7.5 Personal pronouns
00:30:41 8 Phonology
00:30:50 8.1 Consonants
00:31:16 9 Writing system
00:33:29 10 Notable Low German writers and performers
00:34:18 11 See also
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Low German or Low Saxon (Low German of Germany: Plattdütsch, Plattdüütsch, Plattdütsk, Plattdüütsk, Plattduitsk, Plattduitsch, Plattdietsch or Neddersassisch or Nedderdüütsch; Low Saxon of the Netherlands: Nedersaksies; High German: Plattdeutsch, Niedersächsisch or Niederdeutsch (in a stricter sense); Dutch: Nederduits; (also other dialectal variants)) is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern part of the Netherlands. It is also spoken to a lesser extent in the German diaspora worldwide (e.g. Plautdietsch).
Low German is most closely related to Frisian and English, with which it forms the Ingvaeonic group of the West Germanic languages. Like Dutch (Istvaeonic), it is spoken north of the Benrath and Uerdingen isoglosses, while (Standard) German (Irminonic) is spoken south of those lines. Like Frisian, English, Dutch and the North Germanic languages, Low German has not undergone the High German consonant shift, as opposed to German.
The Low German dialects spoken in the Netherlands are mostly referred to as Low Saxon, those spoken in northwestern Germany (Lower Saxony, Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, and Bremen) as either Low German or Low Saxon, and those spoken in northeastern Germany (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, and Brandenburg) mostly as Low German. This is because northwestern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands were the area of settlement of the Saxons, while Low German spread to northeastern Germany through eastward migration of Low German-speakers.
It has been estimated that Low German has approximately 6.7 million native speakers – 5 million in Germany, primarily Northern Germany, and 1.7 million in the Netherlands. A 2005 study by H. Bloemhof, Taaltelling Nedersaksisch, showed 1.8 million spoke it daily in the Netherlands.
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A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer such as spruce, pine, or fir associated with the celebration of Christmas. An artificial Christmas tree, usually made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC), is a man-made replication of such a tree and is often used instead of a live tree in order to retain the Christmas spirit and decorations without the care and maintenance of a cut tree.
The tree was traditionally decorated with edibles such as apples, nuts, or other foods. In the 18th century, it began to be illuminated by candles which were ultimately replaced by Christmas lights after the advent of electrification. Today, there are a wide variety of traditional ornaments, such as garland, tinsel, and candy canes. An angel or star might be placed at the top of the tree to represent the angel Gabriel or the Star of Bethlehem from the Nativity.
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