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ISO 639-3 · pdtpdt
Indo-European family
Plautdietsch
Plautdietsch is a language of the North Sea Germanic branch (Indo-European), spoken in Canada. Wikidata counts about 261,000 speakers.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
pdt- Glottocode
plau1238- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 8a Moribund
- UNESCO
- Definitely endangered
- Wikipedia
- 36 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
4levels in the tree
8aEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Plautdietsch |
|---|---|
| Also called | pdt, Plautdietsch language, Mennonite Low German |
| All speakers | 261,000 |
| Written in | Latin script |
| Grammatical genders | 3 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 8a Moribund8a
Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Definitely endangered
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Plautdietsch
The branches above Plautdietsch, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
414Indo-Europeanfamily60Germanicbranch54West Germanicbranch11North Sea GermanicbranchpdtPlautdietschlanguage
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Canada
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalfraFrenchIndo-European · 285.4 m0 · InternationalurdUrduunclassified · 162.6 m1 · NationalpanPunjabiunclassified · 125 mSafekorKoreanKoreanic · 73.2 m1 · NationalpusPashtoIndo-European · 50 mSafeukrUkrainianIndo-European · 34.7 m1 · NationalsylSylhetiIndo-European · 14 m3 · Wider CommunicationbelBelarusianIndo-European · 7.9 m1 · NationalslvSloveneIndo-European · 2.4 m1 · National