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Name:
Plautdietsch
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Geldersch; Low German; Mennonite German; Mennoniten Platt; Neuniederdeutsch; German
Spoken in:
Mexico, USA, Uruguay, Belize, Paraguay, Germany, Costa Rica, Brazil, Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia, Bolivia, Argentina, Ukraine
Number of speakers:
80,000 in Canada (Kloss and McConnell 1978). Population total all countries: 402,900
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
300000
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
401699
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
pdt
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Language:
Middle Low German; Mittelniederdeutsch; Middle Saxon (gml)
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
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