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Description

Dutch dialects in the Netherlands, Flanders and French-Flanders.

Index:

A. Southwestern dialect group (Zeeuws/West-Flemish)
- 1. West-Flemish and Zeeuws-Flemish
- 2. Zeeuws
B. Northwestern dialect group (Hollands)
- 3. South-Hollands
- 4. Westhoeks
- 5. Waterlands and Volendams
- 6. Zaans
- 7. Kennemerlands
- 8. West-Frisian
- 9. Bildts, Midslands, Stads-Frisian and Amelands
C. Northeastern dialect group (Low Saxon)
- 10. Kollumerlands
- 11. Gronings and North-Drents
- 12. Stellingwerfs
- 13. Middle-Drents
- 14. South-Drents
- 15. Twents
- 16. Twents-Graafschaps
- 17. Gelders-Overijssels (Achterhoeks) and Urks
- 18. Veluws
D. Northern-Central dialect group
- 19. Utrechts-Alblasserwaards
E. Southern-central dialect group
- 20. South-Gelders
- 21. North-Brabants and North-Limburgs
- 22. dialect in the area between East-Flemish and Brabants + Brabants
- 23. dialect in the area between West- and East-Flemish + East-Flemish
F. Southeastern dialect group
- 24. dialect in the area between Brabant and Limburg + Limburgs
Miscellaneous
- FL. Province Flevoland. No dialect a majority, because of its short existence. (Post World War II)
- The blank area (near zone 9) speaks Frisian dialects.

(see also Dutch on nl.wikipedia.org)

Source

The data has for the most part been taken from the classification the dialectologist Jo Daan has made (see: ([1])). This classification remains a subject of discussion in the dialectology, but has (partly) been approved by most dialectists and linguists.

Author

Jeroen

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