Zeelandic
The Zeeland ( Zeeland, Zeeland ) is a group of Low Franconian dialects spoken in the Dutch province of Zeeland and on the situated north of Zealand former island of Goeree -Overflakkee. They are generally considered to be a dialect of Dutch; However, making the differences in pronunciation and here and there even in the vocabulary and grammar it for a spokesman for the Dutch standard language or a Dutch dialect particularly difficult to understand the Seeländische. Ethnologue refers to it as a separate language ( language code ZEA; adopted by ISO in ISO 639-3 list). Others prefer to look at the Seeländische together with the West-Flemish as a language.
The Zeeland dialects form a transition from Dutch to West Flemish. If you travel from north to south, you will notice a gradual increase in southwesterly speech features.
In Zeeland Flanders we speak dialects that are attributed to the West and East Flanders. However, the West Flemish variants which we speak there, sometimes also called Zeeland. The Zeeland dialects are actively still used by some 200,000 people; the variants Zeeland Vlaanderens are not included.
The parts of the State of New Jersey (USA) spoken until the early 20th century Jersey Dutch was based on the Lakes Region.
Will be formally recognized for a long time it worked Zeeland in Zeeland. Becoming a trial under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages recognized failed in 2004.
See also
- Negerholländisch