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Low Saxon
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Key facts
- Native to
- Germany , Netherlands , Southern Denmark
- Speakers
- Native: 300,000 (2016) , L2: 2.2 million
- Language family
- Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Low German Low Saxon
- Iso 639 2
- nds for Low German
- Iso 639 3
- Variously:, nds – (partial), wep – Westphalian, frs – Eastern Frisian, gos – Gronings, stl – Stellingwerfs, drt – Drents, twd – Twents, act – Achterhoeks, sdz – Sallands, vel – Veluws
- Glottolog
- west2357
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Low Saxon (German: Niedersächsisch, Dutch: Nedersaksisch), also known as West Low German (German: Westniederdeutsch), is a group of Low German dialects spoken in parts of the Netherlands, northwestern Germany and southern Denmark (in North Schleswig by parts of the German-speaking minority). It is one of two dialect groups, the other being East Low German.
Extent
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Low Saxon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.