Low Saxon

West Low German
West Low German
Native to	Germany, Netherlands, Southern Denmark
Speakers	Native: 300,000 (2016); L2: 2.2 million
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.

Low Saxon (Dutch: Nedersaksisch), also known as West Low German (German: Westniederdeutsch^[2]) are 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 dialect groups, the other being East Low German.

^ ^a ^b (partial) at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Westphalian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Eastern Frisian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Gronings at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Stellingwerfs at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Drents at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
(Additional references under 'Language codes' in the information box)
^ Peter Wiesinger, Die Einteilung der deutschen Dialekte, in: Werner Besch, Ulrich Knoop, Wolfgang Putschke, Herbert Ernst Wiegand (eds.), Dialektologie. Ein Handbuch zur deutschen und allgemeinen Dialektforschung. Zweiter Halbband (series: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (HSK), 1.2), 1983, p. 828

[e25-1] (partial) at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Westphalian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Eastern Frisian at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Gronings at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Stellingwerfs at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Drents at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
(Additional references under 'Language codes' in the information box)

[2] Peter Wiesinger, Die Einteilung der deutschen Dialekte, in: Werner Besch, Ulrich Knoop, Wolfgang Putschke, Herbert Ernst Wiegand (eds.), Dialektologie. Ein Handbuch zur deutschen und allgemeinen Dialektforschung. Zweiter Halbband (series: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (HSK), 1.2), 1983, p. 828

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