Status of Low German dialects and their functions in the society
It is widely known that literary language, spoken language and dialects are the forms of existence of a national language. Structural differences reveal at all their levels - on phonological, lexical and grammatical. From the point of view of their functions the national literary language can express all the knowledge in all functional styles in all spheres - state, regional, local, domestic and family, production and ritual. Dialect is not used in the sphere of state public communication, there are three functional stylistic levels in a dialect: spoken colloquial, elements of public speech and the language of dialect fiction.