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Dutch Low Saxon (Nederlaands Leegsaksies [ˈneːdərlaːnts ˈleːxsɑksis] or Nederlaands Nedersaksies; Dutch: Nederlands Nedersaksisch) are the Low Saxon dialects of the Low German language that are spoken in the northeastern Netherlands and are written there with local, unstandardised orthographies based on Standard Dutch orthography.
Low Saxon (Dutch: Nedersaksisch), also known as West Low German (German: Westniederdeutsch) are a group of Low German dialects spoken in parts of the Netherlands, northwestern Germany and southern Denmark (in North Schleswig by parts of the German-speaking minority).
- Native: 300,000 (2016), L2: 2.2 million
Most specifically, the notion that there is a continuum between Dutch and Dutch Low Saxon. I grew up near Nijmegen (northeastern corner of Low Frankish in the Netherlands) and while we would use some Low Saxon origin dialect words, the grammar of say Achterhoeks is markedly different in a way consistent across the Low Saxon language sphere.
The Dutch Low Saxon Wikipedia was preceded by three years by a Low German Wikipedia (the Plattdüütsch Wikipedia), which was set up in April 2003. The Low German dialects, which are not standardised, stretch from all of Northern Germany to the Northeast Netherlands.
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Dutch Low Saxon phrasebook. Dutch Low Saxon (Dutch Low Saxon: Nedersaksies, Dutch: Nedersaksisch) is a group of West Low German dialects spoken in the northeastern Netherlands. It is assumed to be the native language of between 1 and 2 million people in the Netherlands.
Until recently, Low Saxon was a suppressed or even oppressed minority language within its original territory. The Low Saxon dialects spoken in the Netherlands used to be officially considered dialects of Dutch, and those spoken in Germany used to be officially considered dialects of German.
