Low Saxon dialect

West Low German
German: Niedersächsisch or German: Westniederdeutsch
Native to	Germany, Netherlands, southern Denmark (North Schleswig)
Native speakers	4 million (date missing)
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Low German West Low German
Language codes
ISO 639-2	nds
ISO 639-3	Variously:  – Westphalian  – (partial)  – Eastern Frisian  – Gronings  – Stellingwerfs  – Drents  – Twents  – Achterhoeks  – Sallands  – Veluws
Glottolog	None
Low Saxon language area

West Low German, also known as Low Saxon (German: Niedersächsisch or German: Westniederdeutsch; literally: ; Low German: Nedersassisch, Nedersaksies, Platduuts, Plat(t); Dutch: Nedersaksisch; ) is a group of Low German (also Low Saxon; German: Niederdeutsch or Plattdeutsch, Dutch: Nederduits) dialects spoken in parts of the Netherlands, northwestern Germany and southern Denmark (in North Schleswig by the German minority). It is one of two groups of mutually intelligible dialects, the other being East Low German dialects.

The language area comprises the North German states of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia (the Westphalian part), Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony-Anhalt (the northwestern areas around Magdeburg) as well as the northeast of The Netherlands (i.e. Dutch Low Saxon, spoken in Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel and northern Gelderland) and the Schleswigsch dialect spoken by the North Schleswig Germans in the southernmost part of Denmark.