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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.
Stress location is the same as in the Standard Dutch cognates. Main stress is regularly on the penultimate syllable. The intonational system is much like that of Standard Dutch and Standard German. [23] As many other Limburgish dialects, the Maastrichtian dialect features a distinction between Accent 1 and Accent 2, limited to stressed syllables.
Maastricht is located on both sides of the Meuse (Dutch: Maas), at the point where the river is joined by the Jeker. Mount Saint Peter (Sint-Pietersberg) is largely situated within the city's municipal borders.
Location The Hoge Brug ( pronounced [ˈɦoːɣə ˈbrʏx] ; Dutch for 'high bridge'), also known by its Maastrichtian dialect name Hoeg Brögk ( pronounced [ɦuɣ ˈbʀœk] ), is a pedestrian and cycle bridge that spans the Meuse (Dutch: Maas ) in Maastricht , Netherlands .
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.
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.
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Vaals (Dutch: ⓘ; Vaals dialect: Vols) [tone?] is a town in the extreme southeastern part of the Dutch province of Limburg, itself in the southeast of the Netherlands. The municipality covers an area of 23.90 km 2 (9.23 sq mi).It is situated in the western foothills of the Ardennes – Eifelrange and lies some 23 km (14 mi) east of Maastricht ...