Low German
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| Low German Nedersaksisch Plattdüütsch | |
| Spoken in: | Germany, Netherlands, Denamrk (Norddütschland) |
| Conworld: | Real world |
| Total speakers: | unknown |
| Genealogical classification: | Indo-European
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| Basic word order: | SVO, OVS/V2 |
| Morphological type: | inflecting |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | nominative-accusative |
| Writing system: | |
| Created by: | |
| unknown | 1800-Present C.E. |
History and Stages
- Stages of Low German
- Old Saxon
- Middle Low Saxon
- Low Saxon aka Low German
Difference between High and Low German
High German differs from other West German languages such as Low German, English, and Dutch in that High German when through the High German Consonant Shift. The High German Consonant Shift (or HGCS) is the sound shift where;
- Non-geminated voicless stops became fricatives,
- Geminated, nasal-adjacent and liquid-adjacent voiceless stops became affricates,
- Voiced stops became voiceless stops, and finally
- All interdental fricatives (/ð/ and /θ/) became the dental stop and/or Alveolar stop /d̻/ and /d/.
The last stage was shared by Low German and Dutch.
Orthography
Because there is no standard dialect of Low German, there is no standard orthography. It can often differ by region.
