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Low German or Low Saxon (Plattdüütsch Nedderdüütsch; Standard German: Plattdeutsch or Niederdeutsch; Dutch: Nedersaksisch in the wider sense see Nomenclature below) is an Ingvaeonic West Germanic language spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands. It is descended from Old Saxon in its earliest form.The historical Sprachraum of Low German also included contemporary northern Poland the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia and a part of southern Lithuania.