Veluws dialect

Veluws
Veluws
Native to	Netherlands
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Low Saxon West Low Saxon (Dutch Low Saxon) Veluws
Official status
Official language in	Netherlands Recognized in 1996 (as being part of Low Saxonian).^[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`vel`
Glottolog	`velu1238`^[2]
Geographical location of Veluws (colour: light green) among the other minority and regional languages and dialects of the Benelux countries

Veluws is a Dutch Low Saxon dialect which is spoken on the Veluwe.

Geographic distribution

Veluws is spoken in the Central Netherlands, in the Northwest of Gelderland.

Official status

The language was recognized by the government of the Netherlands in 1996 (as being part of Low Saxonian).^[3]

Dialects

Frans Nieuwenhuis (born 1936) sings in Veluws dialect.

Veluws is usually divided into two main dialects, West-Veluws (West Veluws) and Oost-Veluws (East Veluws), these two dialects are reasonably similar but differ in grammar. For example: in Oost-Veluws they say ie warkt/wärkt (you are working) and in West-Veluws jie warken/waarken (you are working).

Lexical similarities

West-Veluws is also more influenced by Dutch. The closer one gets to the border with Oost-Veluws, the more the dialects differ from Standard Dutch. For example in the central part where West-Veluws is spoken they say hie staot, in the North Western part they say hij steet compared to hij/hee stiet (he is standing) in Oost-Veluws, this already has a more Low Saxon influence. Hattem, the North Eastern part where Oost-Veluws is spoken has a heavy Sallandic influence.

Classification

It is not well defined what constitutes a language versus a dialect, but Veluws is generally considered to be a dialect of Low Saxon, classified Indo-European, Germanic, West, Low Saxon-Low Franconian, Low Saxon.^[4]

Languages and dialects of Benelux

Dutch Brabantian East Flemish Hollandic South Hollandic South Guelderish West Flemish Zeelandic Dutch Low Saxon Achterhoeks Drèents East Frisian Gronings Sallands Stellingwarfs Tweants Urkers Veluws English French Champenois Lorrain Picard Walloon German Ripuarian Limburgish Low Dietsch Luxembourgish Papiamento West Frisian Stadsfries

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Modern Germanic languages and dialects

North
Germanic

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West
Germanic

Anglo-
Frisian

Low
Franconian

Low German/
Low Saxon

High
German

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Yiddish

References

Low Saxon edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

↑ http://archive.ethnologue.com/16/show_language.asp?code=vel
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Veluws". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ http://archive.ethnologue.com/16/show_language.asp?code=vel
↑ http://archive.ethnologue.com/16/show_language.asp?code=vel

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