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Low Saxon, also known as West Low German (Low German: Nedersassisch, Nedersaksies; Dutch: Nedersaksisch) is 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 groups of mutually intelligible dialects, the other being East Low German dialects. A 2005 study found that there were approximately 1.8 million "daily speakers" of Low Saxon in the Netherlands. 53% spoke Low Saxon or Low Saxon and Dutch at home and 71% could speak it.[1] According to another study the percentage of speakers among parents dropped from 34% in 1995 to 15% in 2011. The percentage of speakers among their children dropped from 8% to 2% in the same period.[2]

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West Low German
Native to	Germany, Netherlands, Southern Denmark
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Low German West Low German
Language codes
ISO 639-2	nds for Low German
ISO 639-3	Variously: nds – (partial) wep – Westphalian frs – Eastern Frisian gos – Gronings stl – Stellingwerfs drt – Drents twd – Twents act – Achterhoeks sdz – Sallands vel – Veluws
Glottolog	west2357
West Low German area in yellow.

Extent

The language area comprises the North 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 (i.e. Dutch Low Saxon, spoken in Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel and northern Gelderland) and the Schleswigsch dialect spoken by the North Schleswig Germans in the southernmost part of Denmark.

In the south the Benrath line and Uerdingen line isoglosses form the border with the area, where West Central German variants of High German are spoken.

List of dialects

Germany

• West Low German
  • Westphalian, including the region around Münster and the Osnabrück region of Lower Saxony
  • Eastphalian, spoken in southeastern Lower Saxony (Hanover, Braunschweig, Göttingen) and in the Magdeburg Börde region
  • Northern Low Saxon
    • East Frisian Low Saxon in East Frisia[3]
    • Dithmarsisch[3]
    • Schleswig[i]sch[3]
    • Holsteinisch[3]
      • Hamburgisch
    • Nordhannoversch[3]
    • Emsländisch[3]
    • Oldenburgisch in the Oldenburg region[3]

Netherlands

While Dutch is a Low Franconian language, the Dutch Low Saxon varieties, which the Dutch government considers to be Dutch dialects, form a dialect continuum with the Westphalian language. They consist of:

• West Low German
  • Westphalian
    • Stellingwarfs in southeastern Friesland
    • Midden-Drents
    • Zuud-Drèents
    • Tweants and Tweants-Groafschops in the Twente region of Overijssel and the adjacent Achterhoek region of Gelderland
    • Veluws in the Veluwe region of Gelderland
    • Gelders-Overijssels
      • Achterhooks
      • Sallaans in the Salland region of western Overijssel
      • Urkers on the former island of Urk in Flevoland
  • Northern Low Saxon
    • Westerkwartiers, in western Groningen
    • Gronings, in Groningen and northern Drenthe, by its Frisian substratum related to Friso-Saxon dialects

Denmark

• West Low German
  • Northern Low Saxon
    • Schleswigsch dialect spoken in former South Jutland County (the northern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig) around Aabenraa (Apenrade)

References

На других языках

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[de] Niedersächsisch

Niedersächsisch (in den Niederlanden: Nedersaksisch) bildet einen Teil des niederdeutschen Dialektkontinuums im Nordwesten Deutschlands und im Nordosten der Niederlande.

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- [en] Low Saxon

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[es] Bajo sajón

El bajo sajón o bajo alemán occidental (en alemán Niedersächsisch o Westniederdeutsch, en bajo sajón Nedersaksisch o Neddersassisch) es una variedad del idioma bajo alemán conocido por 5 millones de alemanes; lengua regional cooficial de ocho estados federados. Es la lengua de la población sajona de la zona del norte de Alemania: Baja Sajonia, Westfalia, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklemburgo-Pomerania Occidental y Sajonia-Anhalt.

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[fr] Bas saxon

Le bas saxon (ou bas allemand occidental) est un groupe de dialectes germaniques occidentaux du groupe germano-néerlandais, très proche d'une part de l'allemand et d'autre part du néerlandais. Le bas saxon est historiquement une langue-sœur de l'anglais, à mi-chemin entre celui-ci et le néerlandais, avec lesquels il partage encore de grandes ressemblances.

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[it] Lingue basso-tedesche occidentali

Il basso sassone[1] o basso tedesco occidentale (nome nativo Nedersaksies, in tedesco Niedersächsisch, in Olandese Nedersaksisch) è un ramo del gruppo linguistico basso-tedesco. Viene parlato in alcune parti della Germania settentrionale, in parti dello Schleswig-Holstein e nelle città di Amburgo, Dortmund, Essen, Münster, Brema e Hannover, nelle province nord-orientali dei Paesi Bassi, Groninga, Drenthe, Overijssel e parte della Gheldria, più alcune zone di confine della Danimarca.

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[ru] Нижнесаксонские диалекты

Нижнесаксо́нские диале́кты (нем. Niedersächsisch; также западнонижненемецкие диалекты, нем. Westniederdeutsch) — часть нижненемецких языков, обозначаемая также как платский язык (Platt). В стандарте ISO 639-2 имеет код nds.

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