Drèents dialects

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Drents
Dreins
Drèents
Native to	Netherlands
Region	Drenthe and a strip of Overijssel just south of Drenthe
Native speakers	About half the population of Drenthe (total 480,000) and a number of people in Overijssel[citation needed]
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Ingvaeonic Low Saxon West Low German Westphalian 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

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 a half the population of the province.

Dialects of Drèents[]

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 foundation Stichting Drentse Taol distinguishes seven main variants of Drèents within the province, based upon the research made 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.

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