region of Glatz, in eastern Bohemia, and in Berlinish (Berlinisch): Differs from Mark­ East Frisian (Ostfriesisch): lt is spoken Kuhländchen in the upper Oder area. Brandenburgish phonetically and in the style between the Lauwersee and the mouth of of speaking. the Weser, but especially on the island of Lower Lausitzian (Niederlausitzisch) Wangeroog. Mecklenburgish (Mecklenburgisch): Former High Prussian (Hochpreußisch): Mecklenburgish is weil delineated in the Saterlandish (Saterländisch): Only Lower Lausitzian and its neighboring Lower west and south. In the east it has extended Saterlandish, with its parishes of Ramsloh, Silesian overlap geographically with the its dialectal range since the German Stücklingen, and Scharre! in the high moors former High Prussian in central East Prussia settlement of Anterior Pomerania and of the interior of northern Lower Saxony and its neighboring West Prussia. Rügen. Thal is why it is also called betwen the lower Weser and Ems in the Mecklenburgish-Anterior Pomeranian. vicinity of Friesoythe, has been able to Low German (Niederdeutsch): Low maintain its identity in the midst of Middle German is more uniform than High or Middle Frisian (Friesisch): lt is not a dialect, but Low German. German. There are three large dialect rather its own language, which tends toward regions: Low Franconian, Low Saxon (also English. North Frisian (Nordfriesisch): North West Low German) with Westphalian and Frisian is spoken on the Hallig islands and Eastphalian, and East Low German with West Frisian (Westfriesisch): The largest the neighboring strip of mainland on the Mark-Brandenburg (with Middle area is occupied today by West Frisian, and western coast of southern Jutland and Pomeranian) and Mecklenburgish (with above all west of Groningen, including the Schleswig, with elements of Danish and Low Anterior Pomeranian). islands of Schiermonnikoog and German mixed in. Terschelling. This region is bounded by Low Franconian (Niederfränkisch): lt is North Lower Saxon and by the Zuidersee. Helgoland Frisian (Helgoländer not to be equated with Dutch, rather it is Friesisch): Quite different from the other spoken even on the northern German Lower City Frisian (Stadtfriesisch): Since the Frisian dialects is the one spoken on the Rhine, while the northeastern part of the 16th century, a mixed dialect of Frisian and island of Helgoland. Netherlands around the region of Groningen Dutch has been spoken in spots in the Dutch is Lower Saxon. regions. This is the so-called "City Frisian", e.g., in Leeuwarden, the central Lower Saxon (Niedersächsich): To Lower point of the Dutch province of D Saxon belong the dialect regions of North Friesland, in Dokkum , .., Lower Saxon, Westphalian, and Franeker, Harlingen, and ö 0-;, Eastphalian. A sharp boundary from the Staveren. c Rothaar mountains on divides Lower Saxon from Franconian and Hessian.

Westphalian (Westfälisch): Among other places in the region Soest-Gütersloh• Paderborn. Also in the Münster area, while in the Ruhr region only oldtimer farmers speak Westphalian any more.

Eastphalian (Ostfälisch): In the southeast part of Eastphalian lies the Elbe Eastphalian region. Be h North Lower Saxon (Nordniedersächsich, Markish Holsteinisch, Plattdeutsch): Region between Kiel, Lübeck, Hamburg, and the North Sea coast. lncludes Holsteinish and Plattdeutsch.

Plattdeutsch: In addition to the aforementioned area, it is also spoken in the regions of East Frisia, Oldenburg, Bremen, Northern Lower Saxony, Schleswig­ Holstein, andin some parts of Mecklenburg.

Mark-Brandenburgish (Märkisch­ Brandenburgisch): Brandenburgish includes the March of Brandenburg and a basis determined by Low German settlements that is best preserved in the Prignitz and Lower Lusatian regions. North Bavarian Middle Markish (Mittelmärkisch): Shows characterstics that can be traced to the Swabian Netherlands.

North Markish (Nordmärkisch) Middle Bavarian

Middle Pomeranian (Mittelpommersch): A broad stripe west of the Oder to the Baltic Sea, in the south though there is no dialectal boundary to North Markish.