Veluws dialect

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Veluws
Veluws
Native to	Netherlands
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Ingvaeonic Low Saxon West Low German Westphalian Veluws
Official status
Official language in	Netherlands Recognized in 1996 (as being part of Low Saxonian).[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	vel
Glottolog	velu1238
Geographical location of Veluws (colour: light green) among the other minority and regional languages and dialects of the Benelux countries

Veluws is a Westphalian dialect which is spoken on the Veluwe. The language was recognized by the government of the Netherlands in 1996 (as being part of Low Saxonian).^[1]

Geographic distribution[]

Veluws is spoken in the Central Netherlands, in the Northwest of Gelderland.

Dialects[]

Frans Nieuwenhuis (born 1936) sings in Veluws dialect.

Veluws is usually divided into two main dialects, West-Veluws (West Veluws) and Oost-Veluws (East Veluws), these two dialects are reasonably similar but differ in grammar. For example: in Oost-Veluws they say ie warkt/wärkt ('you are working') and in West-Veluws jie warken/waarken ('you are working').

Lexical similarities[]

West-Veluws is also more influenced by Dutch. The closer one gets to the border with Oost-Veluws, the more the dialects typically differ from Standard Dutch. For example, in the central part where West-Veluws is spoken they say hie staot; in the North Western part they say hij steet, compared to hij/hee stiet 'he is standing' in Oost-Veluws. This has a more Low Saxon influence. In Hattem, the North Eastern part where and when Oost-Veluws is spoken, it seems to "have" or in the direct mentioned, 'has a' Sallandic influence.^{[clarification needed]}

See also[]

• West-Veluws dialect
• Oost-Veluws dialect

References[]

Low Saxon edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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