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Name:
Saxon, Low
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Low German; Saxon (Low); Plattdeutsch; Modern Low German; Low Saxon; Neddersassisch; Niedersaechsisch; Nedersaksisch; Plattdütsch; Nedderdütsch; Neuniederdeutsch; Plattdüütsch
Spoken in:
Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Poland, Russia
Number of speakers:
1000. 10,000,000 understand it in Germany, but many fewer are native speakers (1996 R. Hahn)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
1000
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
nds
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Language:
Middle Low German; Mittelniederdeutsch; Middle Saxon (gml)
Child Dialect Groups:
Western Low Saxon (nds-wls)
Eastern Low Saxon (nds-els)
Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
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