Northern Low Saxon dialect

Northern Low Saxon
Noordneddersassisch
Native to	Germany
Region	Lower Saxony, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Low German West Low German Northern Low Saxon
Dialects	Schleswigsch Holsteinisch Ollnborger Platt East Frisian Low Saxon North Hanoveranian Dithmarsch Emsländisch
Language codes
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3	(partial)
Glottolog	nort2627

Northern Low Saxon (in Low German: Noordneddersassisch) is a West Low German dialect.

As such, it covers a great part of the West Low-German-speaking areas of northern Germany, with the exception of the border regions where Eastphalian and Westphalian are spoken. However, Northern Low Saxon is easily understood by speakers of these dialects.

Northern Low Saxon can be divided into Holsteinisch, Schleswigsch, East Frisian Low Saxon, Dithmarsch, North Hanoveranian, Emsländisch, and Oldenburgisch.

Holsteinisch is spoken in Holstein, the southern part of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, in Dithmarschen, around Neumünster, Rendsburg, Kiel and Lübeck. The Lübeck dialect ("Lübsch") was a lingua franca for the Hanseatic league in the Middle Ages.

Schleswigsch (German pronun­cia­tion: [ˈʃleːsvɪkʃ]) is spoken in Schleswig, which is divided between Germany and Denmark. It is mainly based on a South Jutlandic substrate. Therefore, it has some notable differences in pronunciation and grammar with its southern neighbour dialects. The dialects on the west coast of Schleswig (Nordfriesland district) and some islands show some North Frisian influences.

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