Mark Wiens
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Mark Wiens is an American travel and food blogger, vlogger, YouTube personality, television host, restaurateur and businessman based in Bangkok, Thailand.
Mark Wiens in 2019
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Low German is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in the Russian Mennonite diaspora worldwide. "Low"
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…Thailand. Wiens was born in Phoenix, Arizona, to a family of Christian missionaries. He is of German and Chinese descent, his Kansas-born father is of Plautdietsch Mennonite ancestry. His mother is from Hawaii within the group of Chinese descent. He has lived with his family in France, the Democratic Republic of…
City limit sign in Lower Saxony showing that Low German is closer to English for Altenbruch (meaning 'old bog/swamp'), an incorporated village of Cuxhaven. The name in Low German is Olenbrook.
Low German-speaking area before the expulsion of almost all Low German- and German-speakers from east of the Oder–Neisse line in 1945. Low German-speaking provinces of Germany east of the Oder, before 1945, were Pomerania with its capital Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland), where east of the Oder East Pomeranian dialects were spoken, and East Prussia with its capital Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), where Low Prussian dialects were spoken. Danzig (now
A public school in Witmarsum Colony (Paraná, Southern Brazil) teaches in the Portuguese language and in Plautdietsch.
Low German dialects around the world