Veluws dialect
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| Veluws | |
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| Veluws | |
| Native to | Netherlands |
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Native speakers
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Official language in
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Recognized in 1996 (as being part of Low Saxonian).[3] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | vel |
| Glottolog | velu1238[4] |
Geographical location of Veluws (colour: light green) among the other minority and regional languages and dialects of the Benelux countries
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Veluws is a Dutch Low Saxon dialect which is spoken on the Veluwe.
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Geographic distribution[edit]
Veluws is spoken in the Central Netherlands, in the Northwest of Gelderland.
Official status[edit]
The language was recognized by the government of the Netherlands in 1996 (as being part of Low Saxonian).[5]
Dialects[edit]
Veluws is usually divided into two main dialects, West-Veluws (West Veluws) and Oost-Veluws (East Veluws), these two dialects are reasonably similar but differ in grammar. For example: in Oost-Veluws they say ie warkt/wärkt (you are working) and in West-Veluws jie warken/waarken (you are working).
Lexical similarities[edit]
West-Veluws is also more influenced by Dutch. The closer one gets to the border with Oost-Veluws, the more the dialects differ from Standard Dutch. For example in the central part where West-Veluws is spoken they say hie staot, in the North Western part they say hij steet compared to hij/hee stiet (he is standing) in Oost-Veluws, this already has a more Low Saxon influence. Hattem, the North Eastern part where Oost-Veluws is spoken has a heavy Sallandic influence.
Classification[edit]
It is not well defined what constitutes a language versus a dialect, but Veluws is generally considered to be a dialect of Low Saxon, classified Indo-European, Germanic, West, Low Saxon-Low Franconian, Low Saxon.[6]
See also[edit]
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References[edit]
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Low Saxon edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
- ^ The sources for this article do not contain any information regarding the number of native speakers.
- ^ Veluws at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ http://archive.ethnologue.com/16/show_language.asp?code=vel
- ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Veluws". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ^ http://archive.ethnologue.com/16/show_language.asp?code=vel
- ^ http://archive.ethnologue.com/16/show_language.asp?code=vel
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