Klaus Dieter Cook wrote
I also learned what is known as "Hochdeutsch" in school. However I cannot for the live of me remember the German term for "low german". I was always under the impression that Hochdeutsch was the correct form of the language and everything else was a dialect.
Would you consider "Plattdeutsch" a dialect or a language?
Plattdeutch is a dialect.
There is even a different between "Plattdeutsch" and "Niederdeutsch"
"Plattdeutsch" is spoken in the northern part of Germany (dialect)
"Niederdeutsch" is spoken in the Netherlands that is then a language.
Katharina