East Low German

East Low German
East Low German
Native to	Germany, Poland, Brazil
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Low German East Low German; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-2	nds for Low German
ISO 639-3	nds for Low German
Glottolog	nort2627
	Low German dialects. East Low German includes the four dialects in the east [Note: The map confuses East Pomeranian (cp. Farther Pomerania), West Prussian (cp. West Prussia) and East Prussian (cp. East Prussia).]

East Low German (German: ostniederdeutsche Dialekte, ostniederdeutsche Mundarten, Ostniederdeutsch) is a group of Low German dialects spoken in north-eastern Germany as well as by minorities in northern Poland. Together with West Low German dialects, it forms a dialect continuum of the Low German language. Before 1945, the dialect was spoken along the entire then-German-settled Baltic Coast from Mecklenburg, through Pomerania, West Prussia into certain villages of the East Prussian Klaipėda Region.^[1]^[2]

East Pomeranian, Central Pomeranian and West Pomeranian should not be confused with the West Slavic Pomeranian language (German: Pomoranisch).

^ Barbour, Stephen; Stevenson, Patrick (1990). Variation in German: A Critical Approach to German Sociolinguistics. Cambridge University Press. pp. 86–. ISBN 978-0-521-35704-3.
^ Russ, Charles V. J., ed. (2013) [originally 1990, reprinted 2000]. The Dialects of Modern German: A Linguistic Survey. Routledge. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-136-08668-7.