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East Frisian Low German or East Frisian Low Saxon is one of the Northern Low Saxon dialects, a West Low German dialect spoken in the East Frisian peninsula of northwestern Lower Saxony. It is used quite frequently in everyday speech there. About half of the East Frisian population in the coastal region uses the language. A number of individuals, despite not being active speakers of Low Saxon, are able to understand it to some extent. However, both active and passive language skills are in a state of decrease.

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East Frisian Low German
East Frisian Low Saxon
Ōstfräisk[1]
Native to	Germany
Region	East Frisia
Native speakers	(undated figure of 230,000 in East Frisia (Lower Saxony) Germany, 3,000 in other countries)[2] mainly older adults
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Low German West Low German Northern Low Saxon Friso-Saxon East Frisian Low German
Language codes
ISO 639-2	frs
ISO 639-3	frs
Glottolog	east2288
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East Frisian Low Saxon is not to be confused with the Eastern Frisian language; the latter, spoken by about 2,000 individuals in the Saterland region, is a Frisian language, not Low German.

There are several dialects in East Frisian Low Saxon. There are two main groups of dialects. The dialects in the east, called Harlinger Platt, are strongly influenced by Northern Low Saxon of Oldenburg. The western dialects are closer to the Low Saxon Language spoken in the Dutch province of Groningen, Gronings.[3]

East Frisian Low Saxon differs from Northern Low Saxon in several aspects, which are often linked to Frisian heritage. The language originally spoken in East Frisia and Groningen was Frisian, so the current Low Saxon dialects of East Frisia, as part of the Friso-Saxon dialects, build on a Frisian substrate which has led to a large amount of unique lexical, syntactic, and phonological items which differ from other Low Saxon variants. Some Old Frisian vocabulary is still in active speech today.

East Frisian features frequent use of diminutives, as in the Dutch language, e.g. kluntje ‘lump of rock sugar’. In many cases, diminutives of names, especially female ones, have become names of their own. For example: Antje (from Anna), Trīntje (from Trina = Katharina) etc.

The dialects spoken in East Frisia are closely related to those spoken in the Dutch province of Groningen (Grunnegs, Grünnigs) and in Northern Drenthe (Noordenvelds). The biggest difference seems to be that of loanwords (from Dutch or German, resp.).^{[citation needed]}

Examples

East Frisian Low Saxon	Gronings	West Frisian	Northern Low Saxon	English
höör [høːr]	heur [høːr]	har	ehr [eə]	her
mōj [moːɪ]	mooi [moːɪ]	moai	scheun [ʃœːin]	beautiful, nice, fine
was [vas]	was [vas]	wie	wer [vɛ.iə]	was
geböören [ɡebøːnː]	gebeurn [ɣəbøːnː]	barre	passeern [passe.rn]	to happen
prōten [proːtnˑˈ]	proaten [proːtnˑˈ]	prate	snakken [snakɪn]	to talk

The standard greeting is Moin (moi in Gronings), used 24 hours a day.

External links

• Low Saxon Office at the Ostfriesische Landschaft
• Ostfreeske Taal
• Diesel - dat oostfreeske Bladdje, the trilingual East Frisian newspaper
• Project for an alternative Orthography
• Dictionary and Grammar

Notes

На других языках

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- [en] East Frisian Low Saxon

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[es] Bajo alemán de Frisia oriental

El bajo alemán de Frisia oriental (en alemán, ostfriesisches Niederdeutsch), o bajo sajón de Frisia oriental (en alemán, ostfriesisches Plattdeutsch; propio: Oostfreesch Platt —o sencillamente Platt—), es un dialecto del bajo alemán occidental (también llamado bajo sajón) que se habla en la región de Frisia oriental (principalmente en la península e islas homónimas), ubicada en el estado de Baja Sajonia, al noroeste de Alemania.[1] Se trata de un habla común en esta región, en paralelo al alemán estándar, hablada por más de la mitad de la población autóctona, con alrededor de 230 000 hablantes, además de varios miles fuera de Alemania y una minoría de hablantes del bajo sajón (no el frisio) que también la entienden hasta cierto nivel. Como muchos otros dialectos regionales, en las últimas décadas ha sufrido un descenso en el número de hablantes.[2]

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[fr] Bas saxon de Frise orientale

Le bas saxon de Frise orientale (en allemand Ostfriesisch ou Ostfriesisch-Niederdeutsch, autonyme Oostfreesk) est une langue germanique occidentale du groupe germano-néerlandais parlée en Frise orientale.

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[ru] Восточнофризский диалект

Восточнофризский диалект — это один из нижнесаксонских диалектов в Восточной Фризии. Восточная Фризия — один из регионов, в котором нижненемецкий язык всё ещё имеет относительно сильные позиции. Однако под влиянием верхненемецкого языка здесь также наблюдается снижение уровня владения диалектом среди молодых людей.[1] Термин восточнофризский сегодня в Германии обычно относится к восточнофризскому диалекту нижненемецкого и лишь в редких случаях к восточнофризскому языку, который вымер в самой Восточной Фризии, и на нём говорят лишь около 2000 человек только в Затерланде в Ольденбурге (затерландский фризский язык).

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