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Where is German Northern Low Saxon spoken?

German Northern Low Saxon is an Indo-European language, spoken in Germany. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where German Northern Low Saxon is spoken

German Northern Low Saxon is spoken in one country: Germany.

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Germany

German Northern Low Saxon has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak German Northern Low Saxon?

Wikidata gives about 200,000 speakers (Ethnologue, 2015). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Threatened. Glottolog lists it as threatened: it is still spoken by all generations, but there are signs that the number of speakers is falling.

Where German Northern Low Saxon sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies German Northern Low Saxon as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Germanic
  4. Northwest Germanic
  5. West Germanic
  6. North Sea Germanic
  7. Altsächsisch
  8. Middle-Modern Low German
  9. Low German
  10. West Low German
  11. North Low Saxon
  12. German Northern Low Saxon

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Other languages in the North Low Saxon group:

More about German Northern Low Saxon

Codes: ISO 639-3 frs, Glottolog nort2628. Glottolog macroarea: Eurasia.

Questions about German Northern Low Saxon

Where is German Northern Low Saxon spoken?

German Northern Low Saxon is spoken in Germany. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

How many people speak German Northern Low Saxon?

Wikidata gives about 200,000 speakers (Ethnologue, 2015). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is German Northern Low Saxon in?

Glottolog places German Northern Low Saxon in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, West Germanic, North Sea Germanic, Altsächsisch, Middle-Modern Low German, Low German, West Low German and North Low Saxon.

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