Low Franconian is any of several West Germaniclanguages spoken in the Netherlands, northern Belgium, and South Africa. In the past Low-Franconian dialects were also spoken in the German area along the Rhine between Cologne and the German borders. During the 19th and 20th centuries these dialects have gradually been replaced by the today's Standard German. Together with Low Saxon and East Low German, these form the Low Germanic family of languages.
Low German (in Low German, Platt(düütsch) or Nedderdüütsch) is any of a variety of West Germaniclanguages spoken in northern Germany and the Netherlands.
Low German was the lingua franca of the Hanseatic League.
Low German is distinguished from High German principally in that the latter underwent a consonant shift in the 700s and 800s.
LowFranconian is any of several West Germaniclanguages spoken in The Netherlands, northern Belgium, and South Africa.
In Germany it is common to consider the Limburgian dialects as LowFranconian; in The Netherlands and Belgium however they are seen as Central or High German.
This difference is caused by a difference in definition: the linguists of the Low Countries define a Low German dialect as one that has only taken part in the fourth phase of the High German consonant shift.
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