Brabantian dialect
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Brabantish, Brabantic, Brabantine | |
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Native to | Belgium, Netherlands |
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ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | brab1243 |
Linguasphere | 52-ACB-ak (varieties: |
Brabantian dialectal region (blue, in the Netherlands and northern Belgium), within the Dutch language area (grey) |
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Brabantian or Brabantish, also Brabantic or Brabantine
Over the relatively-large area in which it is spoken, Brabantian can be roughly divided into three subdialects, all of which differ in some aspects:
- West Brabantian is spoken in the area west of the river Breda, Roosendaal and Bergen op Zoom) and in the north and west of the Province of Antwerp in Belgium.
- East Brabantian is spoken in the area east of the river Donge; in the middle and east of North Brabant (the area around the cities Tilburg, Eindhoven, 's-Hertogenbosch and Helmond), the east of the Province of Antwerp and the northwestern edge of the Dutch Province of Limburg (Netherlands).
- South Brabantian is spoken in the province of Flemish Brabant and the south of Antwerp.
Over 5 million people live in the area where some form of Brabantian functions as the predominant colloquial language; this compares with a total of 22 million Dutch-speakers across the Netherlands and Flanders.[2][3]
History
Compared to the other dialects and sublanguages of Dutch, Brabantian has historically had a major influence on the development of Dutch. During the Middle Ages, manuscripts from the 10th to 15th centuries show that Limburgish and then West Flemish were the predominant literary languages, but there is no evidence of literary manuscripts farther north.
In the second half of the 14th century, emphasis in society shifted to Brabant and so the Brabantian dialect became dominant. A migration to the north was occurring; the West Flemish dialect influenced the coastal area of the province of South Holland ('s-Gravenhage and Leiden), and migrants from Brabant came to the provinces of North Holland and Utrecht.
In the 16th century, when the
Current use
Netherlands
The early modern Dutch written language was initially influenced primarily by Brabantian, with strong influence from the Hollandic dialect after the 16th century. Since then, it has diverged from Standard Dutch and evolved its own way, but it is still similar enough for both to be
Berlin scientists point to a very important phenomenon in the 20th century in the south of the Dutch language area: there has been an expansion in the use of Brabantian by the dominant presence of native Brabantian-speakers in the modern mass media like radio and television.
About one quarter of the Dutch-speaking population lives in the Brabantian dialect zone. In the Netherlands, rural areas still retain some of their original Brabantian dialects. In large Dutch cities, such as Breda and Eindhoven, where the Industrial Revolution drew many people from other parts of the country, the dialect has been diluted by contact with Standard Dutch. Because people tended to migrate towards the cities from the surrounding rural areas, Brabantian influence is still seen in some terms and in pronunciation (the "Brabantian accent" of Dutch), but the original Brabantian city dialects have largely disappeared there.
However, some large cities, such as Tilburg and 's-Hertogenbosch, still have many people speaking the original Brabantian dialect.
Belgium
In
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Differences from Standard Dutch
Brabantian is rather close to and contributed to the development of Standard Dutch.[
In South Brabantian (Belgium), "Ale, salu(kes) e!", based on loanwords from French "Allez!" and "Salut!", is a common parting phrase .
Brabantian dialects have a characteristic historic tendency toward accusativism, the use of the accusative case instead of the nominative case. While the cases themselves have fallen out of use in modern language, the accusative form survives in Brabantian, rather than the nominative case of the more northern dialects (nominativism). As the accusative case had different forms for masculine and feminine nouns, both genders have thus remained separate in Brabantian.
Standardisation
The first attempts at standardising Dutch were in the 1540s and based on the Brabantian dialect of Antwerp and its surroundings. However, after the
References
- ^ Weijnen, A. (1979). Vos, P. H.; Janssen Steemberg, W. A. M. M. (eds.). "[Dictionary of Brabantine [Netherlands] dialects [slaughter and baker's terms]]. [Dutch]". AGRIS: International Information System for the Agricultural Science and Technology (in Dutch).
- ^ Belgium FOD economy Statbel Archived 2016-06-04 at the Wayback Machine official demographic statistics
- ^ Netherlands gouvernement CBS official demographic statistics
- ^ "ABN was vooral een Hollandse uitvinding from 2004" (in Dutch). taalschrift.org.
- ^ Brabants
- ^ Het Nederlands in België
- ^ "Taal in Nederland .:. Brabants". Taal.phileon.nl. Retrieved 2014-04-24.
- ^ Van Wynsberghe, Eline (4 July 2020). "Nieuw programma 'Hoe zegde da?' zet Antwerps dialect in de kijker". Het Nieuwsblad.
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Bibliography
- Jos Swanenberg (2002). "Brabantish". Language in the Netherlands. Streektaal.net. Archived from the original on 2017-10-11. Retrieved 2007-06-03. Dutch versions: Brabants or as PDF archived at Archive.org
Further reading
- Belemans, Rob (1999), "Brussel" (PDF), in Kruijsen, Joep; van der Sijs, Nicoline (eds.), Honderd Jaar Stadstaal, Uitgeverij Contact, pp. 317–333
- de Schutter, G. (1999), "Antwerpen" (PDF), in Kruijsen, Joep; van der Sijs, Nicoline (eds.), Honderd Jaar Stadstaal, Uitgeverij Contact, pp. 301–315
- Peters, Jörg (2010), "The Flemish–Brabant dialect of Orsmaal–Gussenhoven", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 40 (2): 239–246,
- Swanenberg, Cor (1999), "'s-Hertogenbosch" (PDF), in Kruijsen, Joep; van der Sijs, Nicoline (eds.), Honderd Jaar Stadstaal, Uitgeverij Contact, pp. 207–222
- van Oostendorp, Marc (2001). "The phonology of postvocalic /r/ in Brabant Dutch and Limburg Dutch". In van de Velde, Hans; van Hout, Roeland (eds.). 'r-atics. Brussels: Etudes & Travaux. pp. 113–122. )