Low German
West Germanic language spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands
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Summary
Low German is a dialect group[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of dialect group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,813 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Germany[3], Netherlands[4]
- Instance of: natural language[5], modern language[6]
- Subclass of: North Sea Germanic[7], South Germanic[8]
- Writing system: Latin script[9]
- Commons category: Low German language[10]
- Wikimedia language code: nds[11]
- Has part(s): Low Saxon[12], East Low German[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Low German[14], Category:Low German languages[15]
- Commons gallery: Plattdüütsch[16]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 5,000,000[17]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[18], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[19], New International Encyclopedia[20], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[21]
- Native label: Plattdütsch[22], Niedersächsisch[23], Plattdüütsch[24], Plattdütsk[25]
- Different from: Plautdietsch[26]
- Indigenous to: Espírito Santo[27], Rio Grande do Sul[28], Lower Saxony[29], Westphalia[30], Schleswig-Holstein[31], Mecklenburg-Vorpommern[32]
- Exact match: http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#LowGerman[33]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q56249074[34]
- Ethnologue language status: 7 Shifting[35]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[36], V2 word order[37]
- Has grammatical gender: masculine[38], feminine[39], neuter[40]
- Uses capitalization for: noun[41]
Why It Matters
Low German has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] It is known by 123 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]