Eastphalian language

Eastphalian
ostfälsch Platt[1]
Native toGermany
RegionLower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologeast2290
Eastphalian in yellow within the Low German language area after 1945

Eastphalian, or Eastfalian (German: Ostfälisch, Eastphalian and Low Saxon: ostfälsch Platt), is a dialect of Low German, spoken in southeastern parts of Lower Saxony and western parts of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany.

  1. ^ e.g.: Ernste Klänge in plattdeutscher Mundart (niedersächsisch-ostfälisch.) Von Th. Reiche, Herausgeber der Monatsschrift „Muddersprake“. Verlag von Otto Salle, Braunschweig, 1891, p. 9, 44, 45