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Low German
West Germanic language spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands
Details
- Instance of
- dialect group, natural language, modern language
- Subclass of
- North Sea Germanic, South Germanic
- Part of
- North Sea Germanic
- Has parts
- Low Saxon, East Low German
- Country
- Germany, Netherlands
- described by source
- Otto's encyclopedia, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, New International Encyclopedia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
- different from
- Plautdietsch
- Ethnologue language status
- 7 Shifting
- indigenous to
- Espírito Santo, Rio Grande do Sul, Lower Saxony, Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- linguistic typology
- subject–verb–object, V2 word order
- native label
- Plattdütsch, Niedersächsisch, Plattdüütsch, Plattdütsk
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 5000000
- permanent duplicated item
- Q56249074
- topic's main category
- Category:Low German, Category:Low German languages
- uses capitalization for
- noun
- Wikimedia language code
- nds
- writing system
- Latin script