Northern Germany (German: Norddeutschland) is the region in the north of Germany. Its exact area is not precisely or consistently defined but varies depending on whether one is taking a linguistic, geographic or historic standpoint.
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... Bazi is an offensive term used in Northern Germany to describe Bavarians ... Derived from the ambiguous Bavarian/Austrian dialect term denoting a sly fellow ...
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... Germanisation of the region that is now Northern Germany ... They merely developed into more "cleaned-up”" northern varieties of German, varieties that use numerous Missingsch elements, especially in their casual registers ... development of Standard German, mostly indirectly by way of northern German dialect contributions ...
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... Low German varieties (in Germany usually referred to as "Platt" or "Plattdeutsch") are considered dialects of the German language by some, but a separate language by others (then ... It was the predominant language in Northern Germany, and several translations of the Bible were printed in Low German ... that the most powerful German states of that period were located in Middle and Southern Germany ...
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