Talk:Old Saxon

message: 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)
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message: 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)
replies: text: There are certainly people who can guess the pronunciation, and many are probably pretty close, but there are no native speakers so we can never be 100% certain of all phonetic details. Is the show you're watching about the Saxons of what is now northern Germany or the Saxons of what is now England? If the latter, the people on the show are almost certainly speaking (or attempting to speak) Old English rather than Old Saxon. +Angr 00:00, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recording possible? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  IPA in the orthography section