Vaals dialect

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Vaals dialect (natively Völser plat, Standard Dutch: Vaals dialect, pronounced [ˌvaːlz dijaːˈlɛkt]) is a Ripuarian dialect spoken in Vaals.^[1] It is very similar to the Kerkrade dialect and the Aachen dialect.

Phonology[]

One of the big differences between the Vaals dialect and the neighboring dialects (even the dialect of Lemiers) is the pronunciation of ch after front vowels, which is a palatal fricative [ç] in most southern dialects of Dutch. In Vaals, it merges with the postalveolar fricative [ʃ] sj, as in many Western German dialects. For instance, the first person singular pronoun iesj [iʃ] corresponds to ich [ɪç] or iech [iç] in Limburgish, to ik [ɪk] in the Venlo dialect and in Standard Dutch and to ich [ɪç] in Standard German.

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