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Bilingual street sign in Maastricht: Achter de Oude Minderbroeders is Dutch, Achter d'n Awwe Minnebreure is Maastrichtian. Maatrichtian being a city dialect, the terminology "Maastrichtian" (Mestreechs) is practically limited to the municipal borders, with the exception of some places within the Maastrichtian municipality where the spoken dialects are in fact not Maastrichtian.
The long close-mid monophthongs /eː, øː, oː/ have a very similar allophonic variation to /ɛj, œj, ɔw/: they are monophthongal [eː, øː, oː] when combined with Accent 2. When combined with Accent 1, they are realized as narrow diphthongs [eɪ, øʏ, oʊ], especially in the word-final position.
Nowadays, there are only a few semi-speakers of these dialects left, or the dialect went extinct already. New Jersey, in particular, had an active Dutch community with a highly divergent dialect spoken as recently as the 1950s, the Jersey Dutch dialect. In Pella, Iowa, the Pella Dutch dialect is spoken. There were only a few speakers in 2011.
In the dialect of Geleen, /eː/ is realized as [iɛ] and /oː/ as [ɔː]. In many dialects such as that of Maastricht and Sittard, the long vowel /aː/ in Dutch cognates is most of the time realized as [ɒː], as in nao ("after", "to, towards"). The Standard Dutch equivalents are na [naː] and naar [naːr].
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The names used for some major European cities differ in different European and sometimes non-European languages. In some countries where there are two or more languages spoken, such as Belgium or Switzerland, dual forms may be used within the city itself, for example on signage.
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Central Dutch dialects are a group of dialects of the Dutch language from the Netherlands. [1] They are spoken in Holland, Utrecht Province, south-western Gelderland, North Brabant and few parts of Limburg (Netherlands) and Friesland (), [1] and include Hollandic.