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Low German or Low Saxon is one of the Germanic languages. It is still spoken by many people in northern Germany and the northeast part of the Netherlands. Low German is closer to the English and Dutch languages than High German (Hochdeutsch) is.
ISO 639-3. –. Glottolog. lowa1241. Areas where Alemannic German dialects are spoken. Low Alemannic. Low Alemannic German ( German: Niederalemannisch) is a branch of Alemannic German, which is part of Upper German. Its varieties are only partly intelligible to non-Alemannic speakers.
The Middle Low German language is an ancestor of the modern Low German. It was spoken from about 1100 to 1500, splitting into West Low German and East Low German . The neighbour languages within the dialect continuum of the West Germanic languages were Middle Dutch in the West and Middle High German in the South, later substituted by Early New High German .
German dialects are the various traditional local varieties of the German language.Though varied by region, those of the southern half of Germany beneath the Benrath line are dominated by the geographical spread of the High German consonant shift, and the dialect continuum that connects German to the neighboring varieties of Low Franconian and Frisian.
It has been estimated that Low German has approximately 2.2-5.0 million speakers in Germany, primarily Northern Germany (ranging from well to very well), and 2.15 million in the Netherlands (ranging from reasonable to very well). Low German is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands.
East Low German is the three dialects in the east (8 Mecklenburgish, 9 North Markish or North Brandenburgish, 10 Middle Markish or Middle Brandenburgish) East Low German ( German: ostniederdeutsche Dialekte, ostniederdeutsche Mundarten, Ostniederdeutsch) is a variant of Low German dialects spoken in north-eastern Germany and northern Poland .
Low German is the native language of about 3 million people and can be understood by about 10 million people. Since 1999, Low German has been recognised by Germany as a regional language according to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. The Netherlands recognised their varieties somewhat earlier.
