*** LOWLANDS ***

What are "Lowlands languages and cultures"?
"Lowlands languages" are those Germanic languages that developed in the "Lowlands": the low-lying areas adjacent to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. These are primarily Dutch, Frisian, Limburgish and Low Saxon (Low German). Also included are those languages that descended from autochtonous Lowlands languages and are used elsewhere; for example, Afrikaans, Emigré Dutch/Frisian/Low Saxon, Lowlands-based pidgins and creoles, and also English and Scots.* "Lowlands cultures" are those cultures that utilize Lowlands languages or are clearly derived from such cultures.
* Please note that "Scots" does not refer to Gaelic (i.e., the Celtic language of the Scottish Highlands) but to the Germanic language of the Scottish Lowlands, a language that is closely akin to but separate from English (including Scottish English).
 

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English
Appalachian
(United States of America)
Scots
Mainland Scots, Doric, "Lallans" (Scotland)
Ullans
Ulster Scots (Northern Ireland)
Shaetlan
Shetlandic (Shetland Islands, Scotland)
Frysk
Westerlauwer ("West") Frisian (Netherlands)
Frasch
 Continental North Frisian of Bökingharde, Mooring dialect  (Germany)
Öömrang
Insular North Frisian of Amrum (Germany)
Nedersaksisch
Stellingwarfs
Stellingwerven Low Saxon (Netherlands)
Neddersassisch
Nedderdüütsch, Plattdüütsch
North Saxon dialect of Low Saxon/Low German (Germany)
Nederlands
Dutch, "Flemish" (Netherlands, Belgium, Aruba, Netherlands West Indies)
Afrikaans
(South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe)


My dialect - Veno's - belongs to the "Stellingwarfs"-"NEDERSAKSISCH"
... see it at number 22 of my DIALECT-MAP of Holland and Belgium - Flemisch part

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