Low Saxon ( Dutch : Nedersaksisch ), also known as West Low German ( German : Westniederdeutsch ) are a group of Low German dialects spoken in parts of the Netherlands , northwestern Germany and southern Denmark (in North Schleswig by parts of the German-speaking minority). It is one of two dialect groups, the other being East Low German .
3-662: Bad Münder (also: Bad Münder am Deister ; West Low German : Bad Münner ) is a town in the Hamelin-Pyrmont district, Lower Saxony , Germany . It is on the south side of the Deister hills in the Deister-Süntel valley , about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) northeast of Hamelin . The city with 16 districts has about 17,400 inhabitants (2020). The district Bad Münder is the administrative centre with about 8,000 inhabitants. This Hamelin-Pyrmont location article
6-693: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . West Low German The language area comprises the North German states of Lower Saxony , North Rhine-Westphalia (the Westphalian part), Bremen , Hamburg , Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony-Anhalt (the northwestern areas around Magdeburg ) as well as the northeast of the Netherlands (i.e. Dutch Low Saxon , spoken in Groningen , Drenthe , Overijssel and northern Gelderland ) and
9-760: The Schleswigsch dialect spoken by the North Schleswig Germans in the southernmost part of Denmark. In the south the Benrath line and Uerdingen line isoglosses form the border with the area, where West Central German variants of High German are spoken. While Dutch is a Low Franconian language , the Dutch Low Saxon varieties form a dialect continuum with Westphalian . They consist of: A 2005 study found that there were approximately 1.8 million "daily speakers" of Low Saxon in
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