Urkers is the local language of the municipality and former island of Urk, located on the west coast of the Dutch province of Flevoland.

Inhabitants of Urk had been mostly fishermen and still predominantly make their living from North Sea fishing.

Standard Dutch, and Afrikaans are also part of the Lower Franconian group.

The author Gerrit Pasterkamp has written books in Urkers, including translations of the Jewish and Christian Psalms and belletristic works.

A request to have an ISO 639-3 code assigned to Urkers was rejected due to incomplete treatment of the scope the rest of Low Saxon.