Deutsche Dialekte - Linkverzeichnis
(German Dialects Link Catalogue - Paul Joyce)
OSTFÄLISCH
• Dat Ostfälsche Plattduitsch
A guide to the grammar of Ostfälisch with text extracts and links compiled by Christian Reineke.
• Ostfalenpost
The Ostfalenpost is the newsletter of the Ostfälisches Institut in Helmstedt. Their homepage explains more about the dialect and the region.
• Ostfälisches Institut
News and information from the Ostfälisches Institut in Helmstedt.
• Ostfälisch - Wikipedia
An introduction to the Ostfälisch dialect and its subdivisions from the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
• Ostfalia Verlag
Based in Peine, the Ostfalia Verlag is a publishing house for Ostfälisches Platt and for regional literature in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.
• Ostfälisches Platt
A brief overview of Ostfälisches Platt from the Ostfalia Verlag.
• Sprechlehre und Schreiblehre für ostfälisches Plattdeutsch
Information about a book by Rolf Ahlers on how Ostfalian Platt should be spoken and written.
• Ostfälisch - Uni Marburg
A collection of Ostfälisch texts collated by W. Näser of Marburg University.
• Ostfälisch - Literaturhinweise
A guide to secondary material on Ostfälisch dialects.
• Ostphalian
A brief overview in English of the Ostphalian variant of Low German.
• Plattdeutsche Bücher von Friedrich Wille
The homepage of the leading dialect author Friedrich Wille.
• Vaterunser auf Ostfälisch
The Lord's Prayer in Ostfälisch. Taken from De Plattduitsche Baibel.
• Braunschweiger Platt
An introduction to the dialect spoken in and around Braunschweig from the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
• Hannoversch - Steinfurt dialect 
This text was translated into Hanover Low Saxon and narrated by Heinrich Becker. It can also be heard on an mp3 file.
• Runas Gebiuert - Möine Swester kummt uppe Welt
A short story in Hildesheimer Platt that also has a Standard German and an English version.
• Plattdeutscher Vorlesewettbewerb
Information about a competition organised by the Institute for Germanic Studies at the University of Magdeburg in which schoolchildren from Sachsen-Anhalt read Low German dialect textsnd explains what it contains.
Theaterbühnen
• Niederdeutscher Bühnenbund Niedersachsen und Bremen
The Niederdeutscher Bühnenbund is an association comprising seventeen Lower German theatre companies in Lower Saxony and Bremen. All of these companies view the stage as a key means of promoting the usage of Low German in their region.
• Niederdeutsches Theater Braunschweig
This Low German theatre is the second oldest theatrical establishment Braunschweig (Brunswick) and stages three productions per year.
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