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Jack Thiessen was a Canadian scholar and lexicographer known for Mennonite Low German dictionaries documenting Plautdietsch vocabulary.
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What is Jack Thiessen best known for?
Jack Thiessen was a Canadian scholar and lexicographer who documented Plautdietsch, also called Mennonite Low German. His dictionaries helped record vocabulary that had mainly been passed on through speech.
What is Plautdietsch in Jack Thiessen's work?
Plautdietsch is the Low German language associated with Russian Mennonite communities. Thiessen studied its vocabulary and cultural history as both a linguist and a writer.
Which dictionaries did Jack Thiessen publish?
His Mennonite Low German Dictionary appeared in 1977. A later Mennonitisch-Plautdeutsches Wörterbuch appeared in 1999 and expanded his lexicographic work.
Was Jack Thiessen also a writer and translator?
Yes. He wrote stories in Plautdietsch and translated works including The Little Prince and Max und Moritz into the language. Thiessen was born in Manitoba in 1931 and died in 2022.
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