AMD 4 Low German

I sat for a while just typing in different key words having to do with Germany and the German language when I funally stumbled upon an article discussing what they called "Low German." Obviously intrigued, I read through what turned out to be a very interesting article. It went into great detail discussing how the speakers of this dialect of German were slaughtered after the post WWII boundary changes in Europe. It also mentioned that Low German has had a very significant impact on the Scandinavian languages, especially Finnish. For the most part, it sounds the same as what we know as German, save for a few consonant pronunciations, which would just be mistaken for an accent. The big difference is spelling and the names given to nouns. Also, genders given to nouns are seemingly non-existent or very far from the genders given by the German language. For example, der becomes de, ein becomes een, and das becomes dat. With education becoming popular in the 18th and 19th century, Low German went into a free fall, with a more common, official German taking its place. It is still spoken in Northern Germany and parts of Poland and Denmark and is officially recognized as a regional language, despite fights for it to recognized as an official language of the EU.