Abbreviations of Weeknames in German

Question

This is pretty straight-forward.
I have finally managed to abbreviate weeknames in “British”, i.e. en-GB. (What I need is ngerman)
But, as I'm working on a German document, I need the date format exactly like this: Mi, 18. November. Even better would be Mi, 18. Nov.
All I have managed is either Wed, 18. November, or Mittwoch, 18. November.
If relevant, I'm using XeTeX on VerbTeX.
My Code/MWE:
documentclass[%
letterpaper,%
ngerman,%
5pt,%
]{article}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{indentfirst}
usepackage{ragged2e}
usepackage[ngerman]{babel} 
usepackage{isodate} 
usepackage[%
useregional,
showdow,
ngerman,
]{datetime2}

DTMlangsetup*[ngerman]{abbr}
begin{document}
DTMlangsetup*{showyear=false}
DTMdate{2020-11-18}
end{document}`

leandriis · Accepted Answer

Use german (regionless style) instead of ngerman in the optional argument of DTMlangsetup* as shown in the following example in order to get the abbreviated week day and month names. Alternatively, the german module for the datetime2 package, also offers de-DE, de-AT and de-CH for the corresponding regional variants.
documentclass[%
letterpaper,%
ngerman,%
5pt,%
]{article}
usepackage{babel} 
usepackage[%
useregional,
showdow
]{datetime2}

DTMlangsetup*[german]{abbr}
begin{document}
DTMlangsetup*{showyear=false}
DTMdate{2020-11-18}
end{document}

Background:
From the datetime2 documentation:

Abbreviations of Weeknames in German

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