Low Prussian (Niederpreußisch) is a dialect of East Low German, which was spoken in formerly German areas, that belong to Poland, Russia and Lithuania. The poem Anke van Tharaw, which is better known in Germany than any other work by a poet from Lithuania, was written in Low Prussian by Simon Dach. Plautdietsch, a Low German variety is included within Low Prussian by some observers. Low Prussian is hardly spoken nowadays, if Plautdietsch is excluded from Low Prussian. Plautdietsch is spoken by several thousand in Paraguay, Canada and other countries. East Low German dialects are spoken in north eastern parts of Germany as well as by minorities in northern Poland. ... Simon Dach (July 29, 1605 - April 15, 1659) was a Prussian lyrical poet and writer of hymns, born in Memel in Ducal Prussia (now Klaipeda in Lithuania). ... Plautdietsch, or Mennonite Low German, is a language spoken by the Mennonites, who are ethnically Dutch, but who adopted an East Low German dialect while they were refugees in the Vistula delta area of Royal Prussia (later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), beginning in the early-to-mid 1500s. ... Subdivisions East Low German Low Franconian Low Saxon Low German (in Low German, Platt(düütsch) or Nedderdüütsch) is any of a variety of West Germanic languages spoken in northern Germany and the Netherlands. ...
Varieties of Low Prussian
1. Übergangsmundart zum Ostpommerschen
2. Mundart des Weichselmündungsgebietes (around Gdańsk)
3. Mundart der Frischen Nehrung und der Danziger Nehrung
Low Saxon-Low Franconian languages (Nederduitse talen, Nedderdüütsche Spraken) are any of a variety of West Germanic languages spoken in northern Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Surinam.
To this day no evidence is found on Low Saxon and Low Franconian ever having a common ancestor, and in linguistics the term Low German is mainly used to indentify West Germanic language who have not experienced the High German consonant shift, or the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law.
The Low Saxon-Low Franconian languages are not characterized by a common linguistic innovation, but they are the West Germanic languages that have neither been affected by the High German consonant shift nor by the Anglo-Frisian palatalizations.
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