West Low German

West Low German
Spoken in Germany, Netherlands, Denmark
Native speakers ≈4 million  (date missing)
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –

West Low German, also known as Low Saxon (German: Niedersächsisch, Dutch: Nedersaksisch), is a group of Low German dialects spoken in the northwest of Germany and adjacent territories. Together with East Low German it forms the Low German dialect group (German: Niederdeutsch or Plattdeutsch).

The language area comprises the German states of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia (the Westphalian part), Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony-Anhalt (the northwestern areas around Magdeburg) as well as the northeast of the Netherlands (Dutch Low Saxon, spoken in Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel and northern Gelderland) and the North Schleswig Germans in the southernmost part of Denmark.

Contents

List of dialects

In Germany

In the Netherlands

The Dutch Low Saxon varieties, which are also defined as Dutch dialects, form a dialect continuum with the Westphalian language, except for Gronings with its Frisian substratum, related to East Frisian Low Saxon. They consist of:

In Denmark

References

  1. ^ Noble, Cecil A. M. (1983). Modern German dialects New York [u.a.], Lang, p. 103-104
  2. ^ Noble, Cecil A. M. (1983). Modern German dialects New York [u.a.], Lang, p. 103-104
  3. ^ Noble, Cecil A. M. (1983). Modern German dialects New York [u.a.], Lang, p. 103-104
  4. ^ Noble, Cecil A. M. (1983). Modern German dialects New York [u.a.], Lang, p. 103-104
  5. ^ Noble, Cecil A. M. (1983). Modern German dialects New York [u.a.], Lang, p. 103-104
  6. ^ Noble, Cecil A. M. (1983). Modern German dialects New York [u.a.], Lang, p. 103-104
  7. ^ Noble, Cecil A. M. (1983). Modern German dialects New York [u.a.], Lang, p. 103-104
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