Drèents dialects

Westphalian dialects of Drenthe, Netherlands

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Drents

Dreins
Drèents
Native to| Netherlands
Region| Drenthe and a strip of Overijssel just south of Drenthe

Native speakers

| 255,000 (2009)[1]

Language family

Indo-European

* Germanic
* West Germanic
* North Sea Germanic
* Low German[1]
* West Low German
* Westphalian[citation needed]
* Drents

Official status

Official language in

| Netherlands (as part of Low Saxon)
Regulated by| Provincial States of Drenthe (spelling)
Language codes
ISO 639-3| `drt`
Glottolog| `dren1238`

Map showing the provinces of Drenthe (most of the area in green tones) and Overijssel (mostly grey; with small regions in dark green south of Drenthe)

Drèents (also Dreins, Dreints, Drents, Drints; Dutch: Drents) is a collective term for Westphalian dialects spoken in Drenthe, a province of the Netherlands. They are spoken by about half of the population of the province.

## Phonology

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### Consonants

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| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Dorsal | Glottal

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Stop | voiceless | p | t | ʈ | k |
voiced | b | d | ɖ | ɡ |
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʂ | χ |
voiced | v | z | ʐ |  | ɦ
Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ŋ |
Trill |  | r |  |  |
Approximant | ʋ | l | ɭ | j |

## Dialects of Drèents

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The dialects from the north and the east (see below: 'Noordenvelds' and 'Veenkoloniaals') are somehow more related to Gronings (a Northern Low Saxon dialect), the dialects from the south-west are 'Stellingwerfs', and the dialects in a few villages along the southern border with the Grafschaft Bentheim (Germany) are considered to be Sallaans (because they have an umlaut in the diminutives).

The Stichting Drentse Taol (Drèents Language Foundation) distinguishes seven main variants of Drèents within the province, based on the research done by G.H. Kocks, the main editor of the Woordenboek der Drentse Dialecten (Dictionary of the Drèents Dialects):

* Noordenvelds
* Veenkeloniaols
* Zuudoost-Zaand-Drèents
* Zuudoost-Veen-Drèents
* Midden-Drèents
* Zuudwest-Noord-Drèents (Also see Stellingwarfs)
* Zuudwest-Zuud-Drèents

It also can be divided into Midden-Drents and Zuid-Drents.

## Examples of usage

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Emmen dialect:  | We moet'n nie zo haast'n.

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Standard Dutch:  | Wij hoeven ons niet zo te haasten.
English:  | We do not have to hurry.
Northern Drenthe:  | ien  | twei  | dreei  | vier  | vief  | zes  | zeum  | aacht  | neegn  | tien

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Southwest Drenthe:  | iene  | tweie  | dreie  | veere  | vieve  | zesse  | zeum  | achte  | neegn  | tiene
Standard Dutch:  | een  | twee  | drie  | vier  | vijf  | zes  | zeven  | acht  | negen  | tien
English:  | one  | two  | three  | four  | five  | six  | seven  | eight  | nine  | ten

Drenthe:  | Ie kunt wel geliek hebb'n.

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Standard Dutch:  | U heeft gelijk.
English:  | You must be right.

## References

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1. ^ a b Drents at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

This article is a part of a series on

Dutch

* Languages of the Netherlands
* Dutch dialects
* Afrikaans

Low Saxon dialects

* Northern Low Saxon
* Gronings
* Westphalian
* Achterhooks
* Drèents
* Veluws
* Sallaands
* Stellingwarfs
* Tweants

West Low Franconian dialects

* West Flemish/French Flemish
* East Flemish
* Zeelandic
* Central Dutch
* Hollandic
* Indonesian Dutch
* Kleverlandish
* Surinamese Dutch
* Brabantian
* Antwerpian
* Brusselian
* Stadsfries
* Bildts

East Low Franconian dialects

* Limburgish
* Southeast Limburgish

* v
* t
* e

* v
* t
* e

Languages and dialects of Benelux

* Dutch
* Brabantian
* Central Dutch
* Hollandic
* East Flemish
* Kleverlandish
* West Flemish
* Zeelandic
* Stadsfries
* English
* French
* Belgian French
* Champenois
* Lorrain
* Picard
* Walloon
* High German
* Standard High German
* Ripuarian
* Limburgish
* Low German
* Northern Low Saxon
* Gronings
* Westphalian
* Achterhoeks
* Drèents
* Sallands
* Stellingwarfs
* Tweants
* Urkers
* Veluws
* Luxembourgish
* Papiamento
* West Frisian

Sign languages|

* Deutsche Gebärdensprache, DGS
* Langue des signes Francophone de Belgique, LSFB
* Nederlandse Gebarentaal, NGT
* Vlaamse Gebarentaal, VGT

* Languages of Belgium
* Languages of the Netherlands
* Languages of Luxembourg

* v
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Germanic languages

According to contemporary philology

West

| Anglo-Frisian|

| Anglic|

* English
* dialects
* Old English
* Middle English
* Modern English
* Early Modern English
* Irish Middle English
* Fingallian
* Kildare
* Yola
* Scots
* Early Scots
* Middle Scots

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Frisian|

| Historical forms|

* Old Frisian
* Middle Frisian

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East Frisian|

* Ems
* Saterland Frisian
* Upgant Frisian
* Weser
* Wangerooge Frisian
* Wursten Frisian
* Harlingerland Frisian

North Frisian|

* Insular
* Eiderstedt
* Föhr–Amrum
* Föhr
* Amrum
* Heligolandic
* Sylt
* Mainland
* Bökingharde
* Mooring
* Halligen
* Goesharde
* Northern
* Central
* Southern
* Karrharde
* Strand
* Wiedingharde

West Frisian|

* Hindeloopen
* Schiermonnikoog
* Westlauwers–Terschellings
* Mainland West Frisian
* Clay Frisian
* Wood Frisian
* Westereendersk
* Terschelling

Low German|

| Historical forms|

* Old Saxon
* Middle Low German

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West Low German|

* Dutch Low Saxon
* Stellingwarfs
* Tweants
* Gronings
* Drèents
* Gelders-Overijssels
* Achterhooks
* Sallaans
* Urkers
* Veluws
* Northern Low Saxon
* East Frisian Low Saxon
* Gronings
* Hamburg
* Holsteinisch
* Oldenburgisch
* Bremian
* Schleswigsch
* Eastphalian
* Westphalian

East Low German|

* Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch
* Brandenburgisch
* Central Pomeranian
* East Pomeranian
* Low Prussian
* Plautdietsch / Mennonite Low German

Low Franconian|

| Historical forms|

* Frankish
* Old Dutch
* Middle Dutch

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Standard variants|

* Dutch
* Afrikaans (Kaaps)

West Low Franconian|

* Central Dutch
* Hollandic
* West Flemish
* French Flemish
* Zeelandic
* East Flemish
* Brabantian
* Kleverlandish

* Surinamese Dutch
* Jersey Dutch
* Mohawk Dutch
* Stadsfries/Bildts/Amelands/Midslands

East Low Franconian|

* Limburgish

Cover groups|

* Bergish
* Meuse-Rhenish

High German
(German)|

| Historical forms|

* Old High German
* Middle High German
* New High German
* Early New High German

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Standard German|

* German Standard German
* Austrian Standard German
* Swiss Standard German

Non-standard variants
and creoles|

* Namibian German
* Namibian Black German
* Berlinerisch
* Unserdeutsch
* Barossa German
* Rotwelsch
* Lotegorisch
* Yenish
* Yiddish
* Eastern
* Western
* Scots Yiddish
* Klezmer-loshn
* Lachoudisch

Central German|

| West Central German|

* Central Franconian
* Ripuarian
* Colognian
* Southeast Limburgish
* Moselle Franconian
* Luxembourgish
* Transylvanian Saxon
* Hunsrückisch
* Hunsrik
* Rhine Franconian
* Lorraine Franconian
* Palatine
* Volga German
* Pennsylvania Dutch
* Hessian
* Central Hessian
* Amana German

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East Central German|

* Thuringian
* Upper Saxon
* Erzgebirgisch
* Lusatian
* Silesian German
* High Prussian
* Wymysorys
* Halcnovian

Upper German|

* Alemannic in the broad sense
* Low Alemannic
* Alsatian
* Coloniero
* High Alemannic
* Swiss German
* Highest Alemannic
* Walser German
* Swabian
* Bavarian
* Northern Bavarian
* Central Bavarian
* Viennese German
* Southern Bavarian
* South Tyrolean
* Cimbrian
* Mòcheno
* Hutterite German
* Gottscheerish
* South Franconian
* East Franconian
* Vogtlandian
* Langobardic

North and East

| North|

| Historical forms|

* Proto-Norse
* Old Norse
* Old West Norse
* Old East Norse
* Old Gutnish

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West|

* Norwegian
* Bergensk
* Kebabnorsk
* Sognamål
* Trøndersk
* Valdris
* Vestlandsk
* Vikværsk
* Bokmål (written)
* Nynorsk (written)
* Old Norwegian
* Middle Norwegian
* Faroese
* Icelandic
* Old Icelandic
* Middle Icelandic
* Greenlandic Norse
* Norn

East|

* Swedish
* Swedish dialects
* Rinkebysvenska
* Danish
* Danish dialects
* Insular Danish
* Jutlandic
* South Jutlandic
* East Danish
* Bornholmsk
* Scanian (historically)
* Southern Schleswig Danish
* Gøtudanskt
* Perkerdansk
* Old Danish
* Middle Danish
* Dalecarlian
* Elfdalian

* Gutnish
* Mainland Gutnish
* Fårö Gutnish

East|

* Gothic
* Crimean Gothic
* Ostrogoth
* Visigoth
* Gepid ?
* Burgundian
* Vandalic
* Herulian ?
* Skirian ?

Philology

| Language subgroups|

* North
* East
* West
* Elbe (Irminonic)
* Weser-Rhine (Istvaeonic)
* North Sea (Ingvaeonic)

* Northwest
* Gotho-Nordic
* South

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Reconstructed|

* Proto-Germanic
* Proto-Germanic grammar
* Germanic parent language
* Ancient Belgian language

Diachronic features|

* Grimm's law
* Verner's law
* Holtzmann's law
* Sievers's law
* Kluge's law
* Germanic substrate hypothesis
* West Germanic gemination
* High German consonant shift
* Germanic a-mutation
* Germanic umlaut
* Germanic spirant law
* Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law
* Great Vowel Shift

Synchronic features|

* Germanic verb
* Germanic strong verb
* Germanic weak verb
* Preterite-present verb
* Grammatischer Wechsel
* Indo-European ablaut

* Italics indicate extinct languages
* Languages between parentheses are varieties of the language on their left.

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