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West Low German

NameWest Low German
StatesGermany, Netherlands, Denmark
FamilycolorIndo-European
Fam2Germanic
Fam3West Germanic
Fam4Low German
Speakers≈4 million

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West Low German, also known as Low Saxon ( , ), is a group of Low German dialects spoken in the northwest of Germany and adjacent territories. Together with East Low German it forms the Low German dialect group (German: Niederdeutsch or Plattdeutsch).

The language area comprises the German states of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia (the Westphalian part), Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony-Anhalt (the northwestern areas around Magdeburg) as well as the northeast of the Netherlands (Dutch Low Saxon, spoken in Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel and northern Gelderland) and the North Schleswig Germans in the southernmost part of Denmark.


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