Low German
Americannoun
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the West Germanic languages not included in the High German group, as English, Dutch, Flemish, or Plattdeutsch. LG, L.G.
noun
Etymology
Origin of Low German
First recorded in 1835–45
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Mr Holbrooks remembers when the Low German Mennonite group began immigrating to his hometown and nearby states in the 1970s.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2025
Still speaking Plautdietsch - a blend of Low German, Prussian dialects and Dutch - a few thousand moved to the forests of Campeche in the 1980s.
From Reuters • Jul. 12, 2022
Mom has prepared a small lunch — faspa, as is said in Low German.
From Salon • Dec. 5, 2021
Their first language is Plautdietsch, or Low German, an archaic unwritten dialect that dates back to sixteenth-century Polish Prussia, where many of their ancestors settled after persecution drove them from home.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019
This process commenced in the north where it seems to have been already fully developed in Low German as early as the 8th century.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
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