Low German

Low German Nedersaksisch Plattdüütsch
Spoken in:	Germany, Netherlands, Denamrk (Norddütschland)
Conworld:	Real world
Total speakers:	unknown
Genealogical classification:	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic      German Low German
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;

1. Non-geminated voicless stops became fricatives,
2. Geminated, nasal-adjacent and liquid-adjacent voiceless stops became affricates,
3. Voiced stops became voiceless stops, and finally
4. 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.