Editing Plautdietsch (section)

====Vowel lowering====
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
! Standard High German
! Northern Low German
! Plautdietsch
! Pennsylvania German
! Yiddish
! Dutch
! English
|-
| {{IPA|/ɪ/}} to {{IPA|/ɛ/}}
| Fisch, dünn
| Fisch, dünn
| Fesch, denn
| Fisch, dinn
| פֿיש, דין<br />fish, din
| vis, dun
| fish, thin
|-
| {{IPA|/ɛ/}} to {{IPA|/a/}}
| helfen, rennen
| hölpen, rennen
| halpe(n), rane(n)
| helfe, schpringe (from ''springen'')
| העלפֿן, לױפֿן<br />helfn, loyfn (from ''laufen'')
| helpen, rennen
| to help, to run
|-
| {{IPA|/ʊ/}} to {{IPA|/ɔ/}}<sup>1</sup>
| Luft, Brust
| Luft, Borst
| Loft, Brost
| Luft, Bruscht
| לופֿט, ברוסט<br />luft, brust
| lucht, borst
| air (Latinate root)/archaic loft, breast
|-
| {{IPA|/aː/}} to {{IPA|/au/}}
| Mann, Hand
| Mann, Hand
| Maun, Haunt
| Mann, Hand
| מאַן, האַנט<br />man, hant
| man, hand
| man, hand
|}

# This shift is still active, as some speakers {including a few from Hague} still retain the older pronunciation.{{Citation needed|reason=How do we know a sound change is still active and that this is not just a separate later innovation? Documents from Quiring 1928 show these changes, and to say that the change is still active means that this change has been active for 84 years.|date=August 2012}}