Northern Low German

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Northern Low German (Standard High German: nördliches Niederdeutsch) is a variety of Low German in Germany, distinguished from Southern Low German.^[1]

There are radio stations mainly speaking Northern Low German in Paraguay, Brazil and Canada.^{[citation needed]} In Germany, it is spoken about until the Ruhr area. It is spoken in several states of Germany. It is far more used in Frisia than in other areas, where it is spoken. Nowadays, most people in the area of Northern Low German do not speak this variety. In television in Germany, various varieties of Northern Low German are used. There are items in Northern Low German in daily newspapers.

North Hanoveranian is spoken from Hamburg to North Rhine-Westphalia. From a structural point of view, a division into Northern and Southern Low German at the border of kept and lost Middle Low German -e would be conceivable.^[2] The concept of East Low German is refuted. ^[3] Northern Low German in Germany is divided in Marchian versus the three varieties mentioned below. ^[4]