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| Limburgish | |
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| Limburgan, Limburgian, Limburgic, East Low Franconian, South Low Franconian | |
| Limburgs, Lèmburgs | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈlɪm˦bʏʀ(ə)xs, ˈlɛm˦-] |
| Native to | Netherlands |
| Region | Limburg (Netherlands) Limburg (Belgium) |
| Ethnicity | Dutch Belgians Germans |
Native speakers | 1.3 million in Netherlands and Belgium[citation needed] (2001)[1] unknown number in Germany |
Early form | |
| Latin | |
| Official status | |
Recognised minority language in | Netherlands
– Statutory provincial language in Limburg Province (1996, Ratification Act, ECRML, No. 136), effective 1997.[2] |
| Regulated by | Veldeke Limburg, Raod veur 't Limburgs |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | li |
| ISO 639-2 | lim |
| ISO 639-3 | lim |
| Glottolog | limb1263 Limburgan |
| Linguasphere | 52-ACB-al |
 Limburgish is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.[3] | |
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Limburgish[a] (Limburgish: Limburgs [ˈlɪm˦bʏʀ(ə)xs] or Lèmburgs [ˈlɛm˦-]; Dutch: Limburgs [ˈlɪmbʏr(ə)xs]; also Limburgian, Limburgic or Limburgan[1][4]) refers to a group of South Low Franconian varieties spoken in Belgium and the Netherlands, characterized by their distance to, and limited participation in the formation of, Standard Dutch.[5] In the Dutch province of Limburg, all dialects have been given regional language status, including those comprising ″Limburgish″ as used in this article.
Limburgish shares many vocabulary and grammatical characteristics with both German and Dutch. A characteristic feature of many dialects of Limburgish is the occurrence of a lexical pitch accent (Franconian tone accent), which is shared with the adjacent Central Franconian dialects of German.[6]
- ^ a b Limburgish at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Limburgish". Ethnologue.com. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
- ^ Moseley, Christopher; Nicolas, Alexandre. "Atlas of the world's languages in danger". unesdoc.unesco.org. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Limburgan". Glottolog 4.3.
- ^ Frens Bakker, in: Onze Taal 66, ""Wat is Limburgs?" 1997, page 109: "bij zowel het Nedersaksisch als het Limburgs gaat om een groep nauw verwante dialecten die sterk van de nationale standaardtaal verschillen en nauwelijks hebben bijgedragen aan het ontstaan van die standaardtaal." (Both Low Saxon and Limburgish are a group of closely related dialects that differ greatly from the national standard language and have hardly contributed to the origins of that standard language.)
- ^ Peters, Jörg (2007). "A bitonal lexical pitch accent in the Limburgian dialect of Borgloon". ResearchGate.
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