For the West Slavic language also called Pomeranian, see Pomeranian language.
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East Low German
Native to
Germany, Poland, Brazil
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
North Sea Germanic
Low German
East Low German
Language codes
ISO 639-2
nds for Low German
ISO 639-3
nds for Low German
Glottolog
nort2627
Low German dialects. East Low German includes the four dialects in the east [Note: The map confuses East Pomeranian (cp. Farther Pomerania), West Prussian (cp. West Prussia) and East Prussian (cp. East Prussia).]
East Low German (German: ostniederdeutsche Dialekte, ostniederdeutsche Mundarten, Ostniederdeutsch) is a group of Low German dialects spoken in north-eastern Germany as well as by minorities in northern Poland. Together with West Low German dialects, it forms a dialect continuum of the Low German language. Before 1945, the dialect was spoken along the entire then-German-settled Baltic Coast from Mecklenburg, through Pomerania, West Prussia into certain villages of the East Prussian Klaipėda Region.[1][2]
East Pomeranian, Central Pomeranian and West Pomeranian should not be confused with the West Slavic Pomeranian language (German: Pomoranisch).
^Barbour, Stephen; Stevenson, Patrick (1990). Variation in German: A Critical Approach to German Sociolinguistics. Cambridge University Press. pp. 86–. ISBN 978-0-521-35704-3.
^Russ, Charles V. J., ed. (2013) [originally 1990, reprinted 2000]. The Dialects of Modern German: A Linguistic Survey. Routledge. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-136-08668-7.
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