Limburgish
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Limburgish is the collective designation for a group of closely related language varieties spoken in most of Belgian and Dutch Limburg and in the adjacent areas of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Bilingual signs in Hasselt, Belgium
Low Franconian
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In historical and comparative linguistics, Low Franconian is a linguistic category used to classify a number of historical and contemporary West Germanic varieties closely related to, and including, t
Limburgish
…language which, in various forms, is spoken in the Dutch province of Limburg.” From a linguistic perspective, “Limburgish” has traditionally denoted the Low Franconian varieties spoken between the Benrath Line (maken/machen) and the Uerdingen Line (ik/ich). The defining characteristic of these dialects, within this…
Old Dutch language area according to philologist Peter-Alexander Kerkhof, 2020 (approximate; in reality, there were no clear boundaries between Germanic dialect groups)