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Low German

Low German
Niederdeutsch / Plattdeutsch
Spoken in Germany , Netherlands , Belgium , France , South Africa , Netherlands Antilles
Region Schleswig , Holstein , Lower Saxony , Frieze , Mecklenburg , Western Pomerania , Brandenburg , Holland , Zealand , Flanders , Brabant , Limburg , Groningen , Overijssel , Drenthe , Rhineland North
Number of speakers 5 million (about 34 million with the Netherlands )
Typology SVO (+ V2 ) accentual
Classification by family
Official status
Official language of Netherlands, Belgium ( Flemish Region and Brussels-Capital Region. Statutes German regional
Language codes
ISO 639-2 nds
ISO 639-3 nds
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Location since 1945, the various dialects of Low German type

Low German (German: or is a group of dialects Germanic. It differs from group High German by the absence of the second sound shift. Subgroups

The different dialects of the group, which formed in effect a continuum of dialects may be grouped as follows:

Notes

  1. "Down" means close to the sea (cf. lower Rhine and Lower Alps) and hence to "north" here, and "high" means "south" (high-Rhine, geographically or higher).

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