Northern Low Saxon (in Low Saxon, Nordneddersassisch or Platt) is a Low Saxon dialect.
It is considered to be "Standard Low Saxon" within Germany because it is spoken and understood in a huge central area including most of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. As such, it covers a great part of the Low Saxon-speaking areas of northern Germany, with the exception of the border regions where Eastphalian,Westphalian, Mecklenburgisch and Pomeranian are spoken. But Northern Low Saxon is easily understood by speakers of these dialects.
Hamburgisch, Holsteinisch and Schleswigsch belong to Northern Low Saxon. There also is a special city-dialect in Bremen.
Characteristics
The most obvious common character in grammar is the forming of the perfect participle. It is formed without a prefix, as in English, Danish, Swedish, Norse and Frisian, but unlike German and Dutch and the Southern Low Saxon Language:
There are a lot of special characters in the vocabulary, too, but they are shared partly with other languages and dialects, e.g.: