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Low German

noun

  1. Plattdeutsch
  2. the West Germanic languages, except for High German, of the Germanic branch of Indo-European, represented by Old Low Franconian, Old Saxon, Old Frisian, and Old English, and their later stages, including Dutch, Plattdeutsch, English, and Frisian

Etymology: calque of Ger niederdeutsch (see nether & Deutschland): so named because orig. spoken chiefly in the Ger lowlands