Northern Low Saxon (in Low Saxon, Nordneddersassisch or Platt) is a Low Saxon dialect. Low Saxon (in Low Saxon, Nedersaksisch, Neddersassisch, Plattdüütsch or Nedderdüütsch) is any of a variety of Low German dialects spoken in northern Germany and the Netherlands. ...

It is considered to be "Standard Low Saxon" within Germany because it is spoken and understood in a huge central area including most of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. As such, it covers a great part of the Low Saxon-speaking areas of northern Germany, with the exception of the border regions where Eastphalian and Westphalian are spoken. But Northern Low Saxon is easily understood by speakers of these dialects. A standard language (also standard dialect or standardized dialect) is a particular variety of a language that has been given either legal or quasi-legal status. ... With an area of 47,618 km and nearly eight million inhabitants, Lower Saxony (German Niedersachsen) lies in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the countrys sixteen Bundesl nder (federal states). ... Bremen lies in North Germany 50km South of the North Sea. ... Position of Hamburg in Germany Hamburgs central broadway Jungfernstieg at the Alster lake, between 1900 and 1914 This article is about the city in Germany. ... Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the 16 Bundesländer in Germany. ... Eastphalian, or Eastfalian (in German, Ostfälisch), is a Low Saxon dialect spoken in southern parts of Lower Saxony, in Germany, including Hanover, Braunschweig, Hildesheim and Goettingen. ... Westphalian is one of the major dialect groups of Low Saxon. ...

Hamburgisch, Holsteinisch and Schleswigsch belong to Northern Low Saxon. There also is a special city-dialect in Bremen. 1. ... Holsteinisch is a Northern Low Saxon dialect spoken in Holstein, the southern part of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. ... Schleswigsch (pronounced /Sles vIgS/, or SHLAY-svigsh) is a Northern Low Saxon dialect spoken in Schleswig, in Germany and Denmark. ... Bremen lies in North Germany 50km South of the North Sea. ...

Characteristics

The most obvious common character in grammar is the forming of the perfect participle. It is formed without a prefix, as in English, Danish, Swedish, Norse and Frisian, but unlike German and Dutch and the Southern Low Saxon Language: The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This is the approximate extent of Old Norse and related languages in the early 10th century. ... Frisian is a Germanic language, or group of closely related languages, spoken by around half a million members of an ethnic group living on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany. ...

• gahn (to go) : ik bün gahn (I have gone)
• seilen (to sail): he hett seilt (He has sailed)
• koopen (to buy): Wi harrn köfft (We had bought)
• eeten (to eat): Se hebbt eeten (They have eaten)

The diminuitive (-je) (Dutch and Eastern Frisian -tje, Eastphalian -ke, German -chen, Alemannic -le, li) is hardly used. Some examples are Buscherumpje, a fisherman's shirt, or lüttje, a diminutive of lütt, little. Instead the adjective lütt is used, e.g. dat lütte Huus, de lütte Deern, de lütte Jung. East Frisian Low Saxon, as a member of the Low Saxon language family is a dialect spoken in the Eastern Friesland peninsula of northwestern Lower Saxony. ...

There are a lot of special characteristics in the vocabulary, too, but they are shared partly with other languages and dialects, e.g.:

• Personal pronouns: Ik (like Dutch), du (like German), he (like English), se, dat, wi, ji, se.
• Interrogatives (English/German): Wo, woans (how/wie), wo laat (how late/wie spät), wokeen (who/wer), woneem (where/wo), wokeen sien / wen sien (whose/wessen)
• Adverbs (English/German): laat (late/spät), gau (fast/schnell), suutje (slowly/langsam), vigelinsch (difficult/schwierig)
• Prepositions (English/German): bi (by/bei), achter (behind/hinter), vör (in front of/vor), blangen (between/zwischen)