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Linguistically speaking, Middle Dutch is no more than a collective name for closely related languages or dialects which were spoken and written between about 1150 and 1500 in the present-day Dutch-speaking region. There was at that time as yet no overarching standard language, but they were all considered mutually intelligible. Events Åhus, Sweden gains city privileges City of Airdrie, Scotland founded King Sverker I of Sweden is deposed and succeeded by Eric IX of Sweden. ...
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In historic literature Diets and Middle Dutch (Middelnederlands) are used interchangeably to describe the proto-language out of which the German, Dutch and English languages would evolve. Although almost from the beginning, several middle-dutch variations emerged, the similarities between the different regional languages were stronger than their differences, especially for written languages and various literary works of that time today are just as easy (or difficult) to understand for students in Munich as in Maastricht or even in Manchester. Dietsch (Diets in modern Dutch) is a term used to distinguish the southern dialects in the Middle Dutch language. ...
By many non-linguists Middle Dutch is often referred to as Diets. Dietsch (Diets in modern Dutch) is a term used to distinguish the southern dialects in the Middle Dutch language. ...
Within Middle Dutch we can distinguish five large groups:
- Flemish, (sometimes subdivided into West and East Flemish), was spoken in the modern region of West and East Flanders;
- Brabantian was the language of the area covered by the modern Dutch province of North Brabant and the Belgian provinces of Walloon Brabant, Flemish Brabant and Antwerp as well as the Brussels capital region;
- Hollandic was mainly used in the present provinces of North and South Holland and parts of Utrecht;
- Limburgian, spoken by the people in the district of modern Dutch and Belgian Limburg;
- Low Saxon, spoken in the area of the modern provinces of Gelderland, Overijssel, Drenthe and parts of Groningen.
The last two of the Middle Dutch dialects mentioned above show features, respectively, of Middle High German and Middle Low German, since these two areas border directly onto the German language-area, as can be seen from a historical map of the regions of that time. An official or de facto standard Flemish language as such does not exist. ...
West Flemish (in West Flemish, Vlaemsch) is a group of dialects, spoken in parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. ...
East Flemish is a dialect of the Dutch language, which is a Low Franconian language. ...
West Flanders (Dutch: West-Vlaanderen) is the westernmost province of Flanders and of Belgium. ...
East Flanders is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. ...
Brabantian or Brabantic (Dutch: Brabants) is a dialect of the Dutch language spoken in Noord-Brabant and in the Belgian provinces of Antwerpen and Vlaams-Brabant and small parts in the west of Limburg. ...
North Brabant (Dutch: Noord-Brabant) is a province of the Netherlands, located in the south of the country, bordered by Belgium in the south, the Meuse River (Maas) in the north, Limburg in the east and Zeeland in the west. ...
Walloon Brabant is a province of Wallonia and of Belgium. ...
Flemish Brabant is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. ...
Antwerp is the northernmost province of Flanders and of Belgium. ...
Bold textItalic textBold text // Headline text Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (French: Bruxelles, Dutch: Brussel, German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium, the French community of Belgium, the Flemish community and of the European Union. ...
Hollandic is together with Brabantic the most frequently used dialect of the Dutch language. ...
North Holland (Dutch: Noord-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands, located in the northwest part of the country. ...
South Holland (Dutch Zuid-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands, located in the west of the country on the North Sea coast. ...
Utrecht is the smallest province of the Netherlands, and is located in the center of the country. ...
Limburgian (Dutch: Limburgs, German: Limburgisch, French: Limbourgeois) is a group of Franconian varieties, spoken in the Limburg and Selfkant regions, near the common Dutch/Flemish(Belgium)/German border. ...
Limburg is the name of two different adjoining provinces: Limburg (Netherlands) in the south of the Netherlands, its capital is Maastricht. ...
Low Saxon (in Low Saxon, Nedersaksisch, Neddersassisch, Plattdüütsch or Nedderdüütsch) is any of a variety of Low German dialects spoken in northern Germany and the Netherlands. ...
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Flag of Overijssel Overijssel is a province of the Netherlands, located in the central eastern part of the country. ...
Drenthe is a province of the Netherlands, located in the north-east of the country. ...
The flag of Groningen Groningen is the northeast province of the Netherlands with a typical dialect (Gronings) with regional nuances. ...
Middle High German is an ancestor of the modern German language, and was spoken from 1050 to about 1500. ...
The Middle Low German language is an ancestor of the modern Low German language, and was spoken from about 1100 to 1500. ...
German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages. ...
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