Northern Low Saxon

Northern Low Saxon
Northern Low Saxon
North Low Saxon, North Saxon
Native to	Germany, Northeastern Netherlands, southern Denmark
Region	Lower Saxony, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Groningen, Drenthe
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Low German West Low German North Low German Northern Low Saxon; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Schleswigsch; Holsteinisch; Oldenburgisch; East Frisian Low Saxon; North Hanoveranian; Dithmarsisch; Emsländisch; Gronings[citation needed];
Language codes
ISO 639-2	nds
ISO 639-3	nds (partial)
Glottolog	ostf1234 North Low Saxon; nort2628 German Northern Low Saxon

Northern Low Saxon (in Standard High German: Nordniedersächsisch, also Nordniederdeutsch,^[1] lit. North(ern) Low Saxon/German; in Standard Dutch: Noord-Nedersaksisch) is a subgroup of Low Saxon dialects of Low German. As such, it covers a great part of the West Low German-speaking areas of northern Germany, with the exception of the border regions where South Low Saxon (Eastphalian and Westphalian) is spoken, and Gronings dialect in the Netherlands.

^ ^a ^b Reinhard Goltz, Andrea Kleene, Niederdeutsch, in: Rahel Beyer, Albrecht Plewnia (eds.), Handbuch der Sprachminderheiten in Deutschland, 2020, p. 191

[Sprachminderheiten-1] Reinhard Goltz, Andrea Kleene, Niederdeutsch, in: Rahel Beyer, Albrecht Plewnia (eds.), Handbuch der Sprachminderheiten in Deutschland, 2020, p. 191

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