page_title: West Low German
section_title: Germany
hierarchical_section_title: West Low German / List of dialects / Germany
caption_attribution_description: English: map of Low Saxon spoken in the Netherlands Plattdüütsch: Koort von dat neddersassische Spraakrebeed in de Nedderlannen
context_page_description: West Low German, also known as Low Saxon is a group of Low German dialects spoken in parts of the Netherlands, northwestern Germany and southern Denmark. It is one of two groups of mutually intelligible dialects, the other being East Low German dialects. A 2005 study found that there were approximately 1.8 million "daily speakers" of Low Saxon in the Netherlands.
context_section_description: West Low German
  Westphalian, including the region around Münster and the Osnabrück region of Lower Saxony
  Eastphalian, spoken in southeastern Lower Saxony (Hanover, Braunschweig, Göttingen) and in the Magdeburg Börde region
  Northern Low Saxon
  Schleswigsch
  Holsteinisch
  Hamburgisch
  Ollnborger Platt in the Oldenburg region
  East Frisian Low Saxon in East Frisia
  North Hanoveranian
  Dithmarsch
  Emsländisch
caption: Low Saxon language area in the Netherlands
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