Low German Definition

noun

Plattdeutsch.

Webster's New World
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.
Webster's New World
The German dialects of northern Germany.
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Synonyms:
pronoun

(linguistics) 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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A specific language, spoken in Northern Germany and the Netherlands and formerly widely spoken in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Kaliningrad, Russia, which developed out of Middle Low German from Old Saxon.

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(nonstandard) Any German dialect that is not the official standard, although they are usually only referred to as "Platt".

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Origin of Low German

  • Translation of German Niederdeutsch nieder low (from the lowland terrain of northern Germany) Deutsch German

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Low German Sentence Examples

  • The old town lies low, and it is traversed by a great number of narrow canals or " fleets " (Fleeten) - for the same word which has left its trace in London nomenclature is used in the Low German city - which add considerably to the picturesqueness of the meaner quarters, and serve as convenient channels for the transport of goods.

  • In 1370 Gerard of Minden wrote a poetical version of Romulus in Low German.

  • Among the Germans, who are most numerous in the north-east, Low German dialects are spoken, except in a Swabian colony round Kulmsee.

  • To it Sundanese stands in the relation that Low German holds to High German, and the Madurese in the relation of a strongly individualized dialect.

  • The inhabitants are mainly of the Saxon stock and speak Low German dialects, except in the Upper Frankish district around Siegen, where the Hessian dialect is spoken.

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LLOLOW

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