The terms are used by linguists just not a majority But that s not the reason why those terms are used on wikipedia Unsigned comment by Low German language is just one letter short of Low German languages 2 words that look very similar yet mean something totally different The first is just the commonly used name of Low Saxon a language of the past now reduced to a dialect Low German languages is a classification Now wikipedias aim is to provide information and accurate information too Many wikipedians contributing to these articles felt that when using the regular terms the confusion would just become too much German Low German High German Low German language High German languages A layman person might think the following Low German Low Saxon is a German High German dialect Dutch is a Low German dialect as in the classification conclusion Dutch is a German dialect To avoid these kind of things we use High and Low Germanic There is nothing wrong about those terms though Unless you could think of other Germanic language able of being called High and Low Anyway just stop reverting It s a waste of time Tesi samanunga is edele unde scona