Dutch Low Saxon (Saksisch) is a West Low German dialect that is spoken in the Northeastern Netherlands. By some observers it is considered a dialect of the Dutch language. Some forms of Dutch Low Saxon show features of Westphalian, a West Low German dialect spoken in Germany. Dutch Low Saxon has the forms: Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families (families hereforth). ... The Indo-European languages include some 443 (SIL estimate) languages and dialects, including most of the major language families of Europe, as well as many languages of Southwest and South Asia, which belong to a single superfamily. ... The Germanic languages form one of the branches of the Indo-European (IE) language family. ... West Germanic is the largest branch of the Germanic family of languages, including such languages as German, English and Dutch. ... Low German (in Low German: Plattdüütsch or Nedderdüütsch) is any of a variety of West Germanic languages spoken in northern Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. ... West Low German is a group of Plattdüütsch dialects spoken in Northwest Germany and East Netherlands. ... Dutch ( â–¶ (help· info)), sometimes referred to as Netherlandic in English, is a Low Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people, mainly in the Netherlands and Belgium. ... Westphalia (in German, Westfalen) is a (historic) region in Germany, centred on the cities of Dortmund, Münster, Bielefeld, and Osnabrück and now included in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia (and the (south-)west of Lower Saxony). ...
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