Hamburg German, also known as Hamburg dialect or Hamburger dialect (natively Hamborger Platt, ), is a group of Northern Low Saxon varieties spoken in Hamburg, Germany. Occasionally, the term Hamburgisch is also used for Hamburg Missingsch, a variety of standard German with Low Saxon substrates. These are urban dialects that have absorbed numerous English and Dutch loanwords, for instance Törn 'trip' (< turn) and suutje 'gently' (< Dutch zoetjes). Hamburg's name is pronounced in these dialects, with a "ch" similar to that in the standard German words ich or Milch (ich-Laut). Typical of the Hamburg dialects and other Lower Elbe dialects is the pronunciation (and eu spelling) for the diphthong (written öö, öh or ö), e.g.: However, as in most other Low Saxon dialects, the long monophthong is pronounced (as in French peu), for instance Kööm ~ Kœm 'caraway'. The Low Saxon language in Hamburg is divided in several subdialects, namely: The Hamborger Veermaster is a famous sea shanty sung in the regional dialect. The all-purpose greeting "moin" is universally used in Hamburg.

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