Low German

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Etymology

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Because northern Germany (Low Germany), where it is spoken, is lower in elevation than southern Germany.

Noun

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Low German (uncountable)

  1. A West Germanic language spoken in Low (i.e. Northern) Germany and north-eastern parts of the Netherlands, and formerly also in large parts of eastern and north-eastern Europe, which developed out of Middle Low German from Old Saxon; often treated as a dialect group of German (or Dutch) for convenience, but widely recognized as a separate language.
  2. (linguistics) Wrongly any of a number of West Germanic languages, primarily spoken in northern Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, that did not undergo the High German consonant shift; the group thereof.

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(West Germanic language, descended from Old Saxon):

(West Germanic languages that are not High German):

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Descendants

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  • → German: American Low German

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Adjective

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Low German

  1. in, of or relating to Low German
    • 1983, Philip Baldi, An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages, p. 127 (note: it has the chapters 10 Germanic, 10.2. West Germanic; 10.2.2. German; 10.2.2.1. Low German; 10.2.2.2. High German; 10.2.2.3. Yiddish, the quoted part is from 10.2.2.1.):
      The Low German group contains, in addition to Old Saxon, Low Franconian, the ancestor of modern Dutch-Flemish, and Afrikans, a sixteenth-century import into South Africa brought by Dutch colonists.
    • M. Springer, Location in Space and Time, in: 2003, The Continental Saxons from the Migration Period to the Tenth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective, edited by Dennis H. Green and Frank Siegmund, p. 19:
      The linguists distinguish Old Low Franconian from the other Franconian dialects, e. g., Rhenish Franconian. Old Low Franconian belonged to the Low German language group, while the other Franconian dialects belong to High German.

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