Brabantian is a dialect of the Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA in Unicode. Dutch is a West Germanic, Low German language spoken worldwide by around 24 million people. The varieties of Dutch spoken in Belgium are also informally called Flemish. The Dutch name for the language is (or (All birds... Dutch language spoken in North Brabant (Dutch: . This status ended with the reorganisation by the French, and the area was divided over several departments. In 1815, Belgium and the Netherlands were united as the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the province of North Brabant was established, in order to separate it from South... Noord-Brabant and in the Belgian provinces of Guildhouses in the Grote Markt Antwerp (Dutch: that lived near the river Scheldt. This giant exacted a toll from passers-by who wished to navigate the river. On refusal, the giant often severed one of their hands. Eventually, the giant was slain by a young hero named (in Flemish: above... Antwerpen and Flemish Brabant is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on (clockwise from the North) the Belgian provinces of Antwerp, Limburg, Liège, Walloon Brabant, Hainaut and East Flanders. Flemish Brabant also completely surrounds the Brussels Capital Region. Its capital is Leuven. It has... Vlaams-Brabant. In the Northwest of Brabant ( Willemstad can refer to: Willemstad is the capital of Curaçao Willemstad is a town in Moerdijk Categories: Disambiguation | Netherlands Antilles ... Willemstad) Hollandic is together with Brabantic the most frequently used dialect of the Dutch language. The other important Low Franconian dialects are East Flemish and West Flemish. Originally in the later county of Holland the Frisian language was spoken. Low Franconian settlers came only in the early Middle Ages. They mixed... Hollandic is spoken. Conventionally the Zuid-Gelders (Kleverlands) is the dialect of the Dutch language, that is spoken in the Veluwezoom, around Nijmegen, in the Bommelerwaard, other areas of the Netherlands and traditionally parts of Germany including Duisburg and partly Wuppertal up to Wenden, which is the only Westphalian municipality. Each of the dialects from... Zuid-Gelders dialects are distinguished from Brabantian, though there are no objective criteria apart from geography to do this.

Brabantian is not recognized as a minority language in the The Netherlands ( Dutch: Under Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and king of Spain, the region was part of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands, which also includes most of present-day Belgium. In 1568 the Eighty Years War started and in 1579, the northern half of the Seventeen Provinces declared... Netherlands: as standard Dutch is partly based on Brabantian there's no need of a separate Brabantian standard.

About a third of the Dutch speaking population lives in the zone of the Brabantian dialect. In large Dutch towns such as Breda may refer to the folowing: Breda Meccanica Bresciana, an Italian small arms and ammunition manufacturer. Ansaldobreda S.P.A., a company based in Naples, Italy and responsible for designing and manufacturing railway and mass transit vehicles. The company was formed by the merger of the Ansaldo Trasporti unit with... Breda and Eindhoven is a municipality and a city located in the province of Noord-Brabant in the south of the Netherlands, originally at the confluence of the Dommel and Gender brooks. The Gender has been diverted, but the Dommel still runs through it. Neighbouring cities and towns include Son en Breugel... Eindhoven, where many Hollanders live, the Brabantian dialect is hardly spoken, whereas in rural areas many people do. Tilburg is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of Noord-Brabant. Tilburg municipality also includes the villages of Berkel-Enschot and Udenhout. The Universiteit van Tilburg (formerly the Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) is located in Tilburg. A week-long funfair (site in Dutch), the... Tilburg and s-Hertogenbosch (literally Dukes Woods in Dutch; translated in French as Bois-le-Duc), unofficially also called Den Bosch, is a municipality in the Netherlands, the capital of the province of North Brabant. It is located in the south of the Netherlands, some 80 km south of Amsterdam. Population... 's-Hertogenbosch however have a large number of persons speaking the Brabantian dialect. In The Kingdom of Belgium ( Dutch: ) Official language Dutch, French, German Capital Brussels Largest City Brussels King Albert II Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 136th 30,510 km² 6.20% Population  - Total ( 2002)  - Density Ranked 77th 10,309,725 338/km² Independence... Belgium the dialects form the normal medium of spoken communication. Brabantian is however little spoken in Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels ( Dutch: or in French) and of Flanders; all Flemish capital institutions are established there: Flemish Parliament, Flemish government and its administration. Two of the three main institutions of the European Union, the European Commission and the Council... Brussels - French having largely replaced Dutch in the middle of the 20th century - despite the fact that there are many cultural activities in Brussels using the dialect and that Brabantian enjoys a high status in Brussels.