Editing Low Saxon (section)

==Extent==
The language area comprises the [[Northern Germany|North German]] states of [[Lower Saxony]], [[North Rhine-Westphalia]] (the [[Westphalia]]n 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 (province)|Groningen]], [[Drenthe]], [[Overijssel]], northern [[Gelderland]] and [[Urk]]) and the [[Schleswigsch dialect]] spoken by the [[North Schleswig Germans]] in the southernmost part of Denmark.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sanders |first1=Willy |title=Sachsensprache, Hansesprache, Plattdeutsch : sprachgeschichtliche Grundzüge des Niederdeutschen |date=1982 |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |location=Göttingen |isbn=9783525012130 |language=de |trans-title=Language of the Saxons, the language of the Hanseatic League, Plattdeutsch: basics of the historical linugistics of Low German}}</ref>

In the south the [[Benrath line]] and [[Uerdingen line]] isoglosses form the border with the area, where [[West Central German]] variants of [[High German languages|High German]] are spoken.