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Low Saxon (Dutch: Nedersaksisch), also known as West Low German (German: Westniederdeutsch[2]) are a group of Low German dialects spoken in parts of the Netherlands, northwestern Germany and southern Denmark (in North Schleswig by parts of the German-speaking minority). It is one of two dialect groups, the other being East Low German.
^ ab(partial) at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Westphalian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Eastern Frisian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Gronings at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Stellingwerfs at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Drents at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) (Additional references under 'Language codes' in the information box)
^Peter Wiesinger, Die Einteilung der deutschen Dialekte, in: Werner Besch, Ulrich Knoop, Wolfgang Putschke, Herbert Ernst Wiegand (eds.), Dialektologie. Ein Handbuch zur deutschen und allgemeinen Dialektforschung. Zweiter Halbband (series: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (HSK), 1.2), 1983, p. 828
LowSaxon (Dutch: Nedersaksisch), also known as West Low German (German: Westniederdeutsch) are a group of Low German dialects spoken in parts of the Netherlands...
German evolved from Old Saxon (Old Low German), which is most closely related to Old Frisian and Old English (Anglo-Saxon). The Low German dialects spoken...
Dutch LowSaxon (Nederlaands Leegsaksies [ˈneːdərlaːnts ˈleːxsɑksis] or Nederlaands Nedersaksies; Dutch: Nederlands Nedersaksisch) are the LowSaxon dialects...
Northern LowSaxon (in Standard High German: Nordniedersächsisch, also Nordniederdeutsch, lit. North(ern) LowSaxon/German; in Standard Dutch: Noord-Nedersaksisch)...
East Frisian LowSaxon, East Frisian Low German, East Frisian Saxon, Frisio-Saxon or simply called East Frisian is a Northern LowSaxon dialect spoken...
Old Saxon (German: altsächsische Sprache), also known as Old Low German (German: altniederdeutsche Sprache), was a Germanic language and the earliest recorded...
northern Germany. While Old Saxon and Middle Low German are totally recognized as Independent languages, the status of modern Low German is not that clear...
Neadersassiske Wikipedia, the Dutch LowSaxon edition of Wikipedia, was started on 24 March 2006. It collects articles written in any Low German dialect indigenous...
languages) Low German languages Old Saxon† & Middle Low German† West Low German Northern LowSaxon East Frisian LowSaxon Westphalian Eastphalian East Low German...
Dutch: Middelnederduits) is a developmental stage of Low German. It developed from the Old Saxon language in the Middle Ages and has been documented in...
the autonomous states of Curaçao and Aruba. Several dialects of Dutch LowSaxon are spoken in much of the north-east of the country and are recognised...
The Saxons were a group of Germanic peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, Latin: Saxonia) near the North...
accommodation at one end. The Low German house appeared during the 13th to 15th centuries and was referred to as the LowSaxon house (Niedersachsenhaus) in...
descendant of Old Saxon and the ancestor of modern Low German LowSaxon language or Low German, modern successor language of Old Saxon Anglo-Saxon language or...
[ˈɣroːnɪŋs]; Gronings: Grunnegs or Grönnegs), is a collective name for some LowSaxon dialects spoken in the province of Groningen and around the Groningen...
features and tend to be only pronunciation variants of Standard German. LowSaxon is officially recognized as a language on its own, but despite this fact...
East Low German (German: ostniederdeutsche Dialekte, ostniederdeutsche Mundarten, Ostniederdeutsch) is a group of Low German dialects spoken in north-eastern...
colloquially called "Saxon" (Sächsisch), it is not to be confused with the LowSaxon dialect group in Northern Germany. Upper Saxon is closely linked to...
closely related to languages based on Low Franconian dialects (e.g., Dutch and Afrikaans), Low German or LowSaxon dialects (spoken in northern Germany...
Bergentheim (Dutch LowSaxon: Baanthum) is a village in the municipality of Hardenberg, the Netherlands. Located between the canal Almelo- De Haandrik...
marked by the High German consonant shift, separating it from Low German (LowSaxon) and Low Franconian (including Dutch) within the continental West Germanic...
by Italian dialects as well as indigenous languages. High German and LowSaxon/German dialects and Germanic languages are particularly strong in Brazil's...
language was identified by the government of the Netherlands in 1996 within LowSaxon. Stellingwarfs dialect test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator Stellingwarfs...
groups: Low Franconian (Dutch: Nederfrankisch) language area in the South and West of the Netherlands (first map to the left). Dutch LowSaxon (Dutch:...
Low German. The division into a western and an eastern part of Low German has historical reasons (homeland of the Saxons vs. colonyland of the Saxons)...
German consonant shift. Low German is further divided into Dutch LowSaxon, West Low German and East Low German. Middle Low German was the lingua franca...
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