Low German | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

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Low German


00:01:50 1 Geographical extent
00:01:59 1.1 Inside Europe
00:04:42 1.2 Outside Europe and the Mennonites
00:07:36 2 Nomenclature
00:09:50 3 Classification
00:12:08 3.1 A language or a mere dialect?
00:13:31 3.2 Legal status
00:14:57 4 Varieties of Low German
00:15:07 4.1 In Germany
00:15:42 4.2 In the Netherlands
00:16:47 5 History
00:16:56 5.1 Old Saxon
00:17:43 5.2 Middle Low German
00:18:27 5.3 Contemporary
00:18:42 5.3.1 Germany
00:21:07 5.3.2 Netherlands
00:22:44 6 Sound change
00:25:07 7 Grammar
00:25:31 7.1 Nouns
00:25:50 7.2 Dative den/dän
00:26:38 7.3 Verbs
00:29:01 7.4 Adjectives
00:29:43 7.5 Personal pronouns
00:30:41 8 Phonology
00:30:50 8.1 Consonants
00:31:16 9 Writing system
00:33:29 10 Notable Low German writers and performers
00:34:18 11 See also



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Low German or Low Saxon (Low German of Germany: Plattdütsch, Plattdüütsch, Plattdütsk, Plattdüütsk, Plattduitsk, Plattduitsch, Plattdietsch or Neddersassisch or Nedderdüütsch; Low Saxon of the Netherlands: Nedersaksies; High German: Plattdeutsch, Niedersächsisch or Niederdeutsch (in a stricter sense); Dutch: Nederduits; (also other dialectal variants)) is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern part of the Netherlands. It is also spoken to a lesser extent in the German diaspora worldwide (e.g. Plautdietsch).
Low German is most closely related to Frisian and English, with which it forms the Ingvaeonic group of the West Germanic languages. Like Dutch (Istvaeonic), it is spoken north of the Benrath and Uerdingen isoglosses, while (Standard) German (Irminonic) is spoken south of those lines. Like Frisian, English, Dutch and the North Germanic languages, Low German has not undergone the High German consonant shift, as opposed to German.
The Low German dialects spoken in the Netherlands are mostly referred to as Low Saxon, those spoken in northwestern Germany (Lower Saxony, Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, and Bremen) as either Low German or Low Saxon, and those spoken in northeastern Germany (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, and Brandenburg) mostly as Low German. This is because northwestern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands were the area of settlement of the Saxons, while Low German spread to northeastern Germany through eastward migration of Low German-speakers.
It has been estimated that Low German has approximately 6.7 million native speakers – 5 million in Germany, primarily Northern Germany, and 1.7 million in the Netherlands. A 2005 study by H. Bloemhof, Taaltelling Nedersaksisch, showed 1.8 million spoke it daily in the Netherlands.