West Low German

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West Low German
Spoken in: Germany, Netherlands
Total speakers:
Language family: Indo-European
 Germanic
  West Germanic
   Low German
    West Low German
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: gem
ISO 639-3: none

West Low German (also known as West Low Saxon, especially in the Netherlands) is a group of Low German dialects spoken West of the German state Low Saxony and the North East of the Netherlands. Most Dutch Low Saxon dialects fall under West Low Saxon, though some dialects of Gronings look a lot like East Frisian and thus fall under Northern Low Saxon.

Major Modern Germanic languages
Afrikaans | Danish | Dutch | English | German | Norwegian | Swedish | Yiddish
Minor Modern Germanic languages
Faroese | Frisian | Icelandic | Luxembourgish
Reg. acknowledged Germanic languages/dialects
Limburgish | Low German / Low Saxon | North Frisian | Saterland Frisian | Scots | Ulster Scots
In other languages