Editing Eastphalian language (section)

{{Short description|Low German dialect}}
{{More citations needed|date=December 2009}}
{{Infobox language
|name        = Eastphalian
|nativename  = {{lang|nds|ostfälsch Platt}}<ref>e.g.:
''Ernste Klänge in plattdeutscher Mundart (niedersächsisch-ostfälisch.) Von Th. Reiche, Herausgeber der Monatsschrift „Muddersprake“.'' Verlag von Otto Salle, Braunschweig, 1891, p. 9, 44, 45</ref>
|states      = [[Germany]]
|region      = [[Lower Saxony]], [[Saxony-Anhalt]]
|speakers    = ?
|familycolor = Indo-European
|fam2        = [[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
|fam3        = [[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]]
|fam4        = [[North Sea Germanic]]
|fam5        = [[Low German]]
|fam6        = [[Low Saxon|West Low German]]
|map         = NDS_dialekten.PNG
|mapcaption  = Eastphalian in yellow within the [[Low German]] language area after 1945
|iso3=none
|glotto=east2290
|glottorefname=Eastphalian
}}

'''Eastphalian''', or '''Eastfalian''' ({{langx|de|Ostfälisch}}, Eastphalian and Low Saxon: ''ostfälsch Platt''), is a [[Low German]] language spoken in southeastern parts of [[Lower Saxony]] and western parts of [[Saxony-Anhalt]] in [[Germany]].