West Brabantian

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West Brabantian is a Dutch dialect spoken in the western part of the North Brabant province in the Netherlands, characterized by distinctive phonology and vocabulary within the Brabantian dialect group.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
West Brabantian canonical 5
West Brabant 1
West-Brabants 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Brabantian dialect
Dutch dialect
regional language variety
closelyRelatedTo East Brabantian
Hollandic dialects
country Netherlands
dialectGroup Brabantian dialect group
linked to: Brabantian dialects
dialectOf Dutch
geographicalDistribution western part of North Brabant province
hasAlternativeName West Brabantian dialect
West-Brabants
linked to: West Brabantian
hasFeature consonant differences compared to Standard Dutch
distinctive phonology
distinctive vocabulary
lexical items not used in Standard Dutch
regional accent coloration
vowel differences compared to Standard Dutch
influencedBy Standard Dutch
linked to: Dutch
influences local accents of Dutch in western North Brabant
isPartOf dialects of the Netherlands
languageFamily Germanic languages
Indo-European languages
Low Franconian languages
West Germanic languages
partOf Dutch language continuum
region West Brabant
spokenIn Bergen op Zoom
Etten-Leur
Halderberge
Moerdijk
North Brabant
Roosendaal
Rucphen
Steenbergen
Woensdrecht
western North Brabant
standardFormOf no official standardized orthography
status informal communication variety
primarily spoken language
subclassOf Brabantian
linked to: Brabant

Low Franconian dialect
West Germanic language variety
usedBy inhabitants of western North Brabant
usedIn informal media and social interactions in western North Brabant
local culture and folklore of West Brabant
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Breda regionalLanguage West Brabantian
Etten-Leur locatedIn West Brabant
linked to: West Brabantian
Halsteren hasLocalDialect West Brabantian
Brabantian dialects hasVariety West Brabantian
Hoeven localDialect West Brabantian
West Brabantian hasAlternativeName West-Brabants
linked to: West Brabantian
Breda regionalLanguage West Brabantian
subject linked to: Breda, Netherlands