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Central Dutch dialects are a group of dialects of the Dutch language from the Netherlands. They are spoken in Holland, Utrecht Province, south-western Gelderland, North Brabant and few parts of Limburg (Netherlands) and Friesland (Vlieland), and include Hollandic. It borders Low Saxon without Gronings, Limburgish, Brabantian and Zeelandic. Urkers, Frisian and Frisian mixed varieties are geographically close, too.

De analyse van taalvariatie in het Nederlandse dialectgebied has a classification based on several characteristics: it has some of the area of Central Dutch as Overijssel and vice versa, Centraal westelijke dialecten and Central Dutch area is greatly contingent, Centraal zuidelijke dialecten is also greatly contingent with Central Dutch.

Driemaandelijkse bladen (2002, p. 133/134) is phonetically based and has the following divisions inter alia:

• • 2.2 Veluws transitional dialects (Veluwse overgangsdialecten, underneath "2. Fries")
• 3. Hollandic, North Brabantian
  • 3.1 Hollandic (Hollands)
    • 3.1.1 North Hollandic
    • 3.1.2 South Hollandic and Utrechts
  • 3.2 North Brabantian (Noord-Brabants)
    • 3.2.1 East Brabantian
    • 3.2.2 Dialects in the Gelders Rivierengebied (dialecten in het Gelders Rivierengebied), West Brabantian
• 4. North Belgian (Noord-Belgisch)
  • 4.1. Central Brabantian
  • 4.2. Peripheral Brabantian
    • 4.2.1 Zeelandic (Zeeuws)
    • 4.2.2. Brabantian (Brabants)
  • 4.3. Peripheral Flemish

Boundaries have been drawn on the basis of old isoglosses. Stadsfries is wrongly seen as Hollandic. Frisian mixed varieties has Stadsfries together with Amelands, Bildts and Midslands. These dialects have similarities with Frisian. The other dialects in this group in that study are Stellingwerfs. Stellingwerfs is not very close to them. The question cannot be answered whether Stellingwerfs varieties are more related to Frisian or to Low Saxon. Eupen dialect is similarly different from Luxembourgish as from Hollandic. Wenker's original Rhenish fan outside the Netherlands largely has been reduced to regiolects and formal Luxembourgish.

In both Germany and Belgium, dialect use has declined sharply since 1970. Young people only speak regiolect.

References

1. ^ Wilbert (Jan) Heeringa, Chapter 9: Measuring Dutch dialect distances, of the doctor's thesis: Measuring Dialect Pronunciation Differences using Levenshtein Distance, 2004 (thesis, chapter 9 (PDF))
2. Wilbert Heeringa, John Nerbonne, De analyse van taalvariatie in het Nederlandse dialectgebied: methoden en resultaten op basis van lexicon en uitspraak, 2006 (, )
3. Wilbert (Jan) Heeringa, Over de indeling van de Nederlandse streektalen. Een nieuwe methode getoetst, in: Driemaandelijkse bladen, jaargang 54, 2002 or Driemaandelijkse bladen voor taal en volksleven in het oosten van Nederland, vol. 54, nr. 1-4, 2002, pp. 111–148, here p. 133f. (Heeringa: Papers → cp. PDF). In this paper, Heeringa refers to: Cor & Geer Hoppenbrouwers, De indeling van de Nederlandse streektalen: Dialecten van 156 steden en dorpen geklasseerd volgens de FFM , 2001

External links

• Frens (Theo Marie) Bakker, Waar scheiden de dialecten in Noord-Limburg? Een dialectometrisch onderzoek naar het gewicht van isoglossen (Where do the dialects in North Limburg separate? A dialectometric examination based on the weight of isoglosses), updated version from 2017 (originally 2016)
• R. Belemans, J. Kruijsen, J. Van Keymeulen, Gebiedsindeling van de zuidelijk-Nederlandse dialecten (area classification of the southern-Dutch dialects), Taal en Tongval jg. 50, 1998 – areas of various dialects of the Dutch language

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