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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.
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.
/m, p, b/ are bilabial, whereas /f, v/ are labiodental. [1]/w/ is realized as a bilabial approximant [] in the onset and as labio-velar [] in the coda. [2] In this article, both are transcribed with w , following the recommendations of Carlos Gussenhoven regarding transcribing the corresponding Standard Dutch phone.
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"What you want to do is you want to give it to [actors] in a very specific way, early enough so that it becomes second nature," veteran dialect coach Denise Woods said. "So they don't have to ...
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.
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].
Another Low Franconian dialect is Limburgish, which is spoken in the south-eastern province of Limburg. Limburgish is spoken by 825,000 speakers. Though there are movements to have Limburgish recognised as an official language (meeting with varying amounts of success, having previously been recognised as a regional language) Limburgish consists ...