Gronings dialect

Spoken in

  • Indo-European Germanic West - Germanic low German
  • Low Saxon

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Gronings ( self- designations Grunnegs, Grönnegs or Grunnegers ) is a collective term for the Lower Saxon dialects of the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. The Gronings and the Low German dialects of East Friesland, the Frisian Platt, form by the common Frisian substrate a striking sub-group in the Lower Saxon dialect continuum. The Gronings distinguished by its accent, pronunciation variation for Lower Saxony Platt and special vocabulary.

Definition and history

The term Gronings can be strictly defined geographically. The transitions to the dialects in Drenthe are fluid. To Zuidlaren, Peize Roden and the dialects are also often referred to as Gronings. The Groninger dialects are usually named after the places and landscapes, in which they are spoken, such as the Westerkwartiers, the Stadsgronings, the Kollumerpompsters, the Hogelandsters, the Oldambtsters, the Veenkoloniaals and Westerwolds.

The Lower Saxon dialects in Groningen are starting in the 14th, originated in the 15th century, when the influence of the city of Groningen in the Frisian Ommelande became stronger and the Saxon town of language superimposed on the old Frisian language rapidly and almost completely repressed. Today ( West Frisian ) is in Groningen only in some villages in Westerkwartier Frisian spoken. It is now almost disappeared in the city of Groningen even the old city dialect of Gronings.

Gronings - Ostfriesisch

Especially in the Netherlands, the dialects of the Groningen platform and the East Frisian Platt be viewed as a collective group and referred to as " friso - Saxon " dialects. This goes back to the common development of the Lower Saxon language on the Frisian substrate in the Ommelanden and East Frisia. The greatest similarity between the Gronings and the East Frisian is the vocabulary.

Differences are mainly due to the different influences of the German and the Dutch standard language and the different spelling. The spelling of the East Frisian is based on the German, as the Groninger notation is conveniently associated with the Dutch. A good example is the word for ice, which is almost pronounced the same in both dialects, but written clearly different (see below ).

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