Back ነደርሳክስኛ Amharic الساكسونية الهولندية السفلى Arabic Baxu saxón neerlandés AST Baix saxó neerlandès Catalan Nederlandsk nedersaksisk (sprog) Danish Niedersächsisch (Niederlande) German Flemenkiyo Nızm DIQ Nedersaksa lingvo Esperanto Bajo sajón neerlandés Spanish Nederlandar behe-saxoiera Basque
Dutch Low Saxon (Nederlaands Leegsaksies [ˈneːdərlaːnts ˈleːxsɑksis] or Nederlaands Nedersaksies; Dutch: Nederlands Nedersaksisch) are the Low Saxon dialects of the Low German language that are spoken in the northeastern Netherlands and are written there with local, unstandardised orthographies based on Standard Dutch orthography.
The UNESCO Atlas of endangered languages lists the language as vulnerable.[1] 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] According to a 2005 study 53% indicated to speak Low Saxon or Low Saxon and Dutch at home and 71% they could speak Low Saxon in the researched area, accounting for a total of 1.6 million speakers at home and 2.15 million total, ranging from 'reasonably' to 'very well' in terms of proficiency.[3]
The Netherlands recognizes Dutch Low Saxon as a regional language under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.[4]
- ^ "UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger". www.unesco.org.
- ^ Driessen, Geert (2012). "Ontwikkelingen in het gebruik van Fries, streektalen en dialecten in de periode 1995-2011" (PDF). Radboud University Nijmegen. Retrieved 2017-04-29.
- ^ Bloemhoff, H., 2005, Taaltelling Nedersaksisch. Een enquête naar het gebruik en de beheersing van het Nedersaksisch in Nederland. Groningen: Sasland
- ^ "De Nedersaksische taal (The Dutch Low Saxon language)". Rijksoverheid.nl (website of the Dutch national government). 14 July 2020. Retrieved 2022-12-17.
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