into an East Central German High German dialect) Nordostniederdeutsch Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch Middle Pommeranian Neo-Brandenburgisch / Neo-Margravian (Middle Pommeranian, Mittelpommersch) (dialect formed by the expansion of Brandenburgisch into an older Pomeranian land) (Pomeranian substrate) (included Stettin, today's Szczecin, in Poland) East Pomeranian (East German Pomeranian) (Hinterpommersch) (not to be confused with Slavic Pommeranian, the Slavic Pomeranians language) North East Pommeranian Western East Pomeranian (Westhinterpommersch) Eastern East Pomeranian (Osthinterpommersch) Bublitzisch South East Pommeranian (Südhinterpommersch) Pomerellian (Pommerellisch) (it was spoken in the Low Vistula region, former Pomerelia, and part of West Prussia) Low Prussian Weichselplatt / Dialekt des Weichselgebietes / Dialect of the Vistula Lands (Weichsel = Vistula) (West Prussian / West German Prussian) Danzigisch (formerly spoken in Danzig and Danzig Free State, modern Gdansk, in northern Poland) (it was spoken in part of Pomerelia or Vistula Pomerania) Werdersch (formerly spoken in the Vistula Delta) Molotschna dialect (originally it was spoken in Molotschna Colony or New Colony, located in modern Molochansk, Molochna river banks, Zaporizhzhia Oblast). Most Plattdietsch or Pomerelian speakers were not Mennonites; although Mennonite Low German mainly descends from Pomerelian German dialect, also called West Prussian German dialect, it was an adopted language from the originally Dutch, Flemish and Frisian Mennonites that came to the Lower Weichsel or Vistula region, mainly the delta; however, today Mennonite Plautdietsch, a diaspora dialect or language, is practically the only surviving form of Pomerelian German or West Prussian German; because of that, in modern times "Plautdietsch" or "Pomerelian German" and "Mennonite Plautdietsch" are almost synonymal). It is a Pomerelian German diaspora dialect/language / West Prussian German diaspora dialect/language (in Germany, Kazakhstan and the Americas). It is one of the Mennonite Plautdietsch or Mennonite Low German dialects (Dutch and Frisian substrate) (originally it was spoken by the Vistula delta Mennonites who came from the Low Countries in the 16th century, in the 18th century many migrated to the Russian Empire, to Novorossiya, in modern south Ukraine, however, at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century, most of them migrated to the Americas, first to Northern America and later to Latin America, people that are called "Russian Mennonites" are their descendants, although they are not of Russian background) Nehrungisch (formerly spoken in the Frischen Nehrung – the Vistula Spit) Chortitza dialect (originally it was spoken in Chortitza Colony or Old Colony, located in modern Khortytsia, an island in the big bend of the Dnieper, Zaporizhzhia