Dutch: a linguistic history of Holland and Belgium |
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Contents
What is Dutch | 3 |
Dialects and Standard Dutch | 9 |
The linguistic situation in Belgium | 20 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
Ablaut adjectives Afrikaans Amsterdam analogy Anlaut apocopated assimilation Auslaut Belgian Belgium Brabants cognate forms common Compound grapheme consonant devoiced diphthong diphthongisation Dutch e.g. Dutch language Dutch words ending English and German Examples and notes feminine Flanders Flemings Flemish Flemish Movement French fricative Frisian gender Germ German Sound Shift Germanic languages Goth Gothic grammar grapheme High German historical Holland and Belgium imperfect Indo-European inflected Ingwaeonic Latin lengthening Limburg linguistic loan words long vowel Low Franconian masculine Middle Dutch Middle Dutch period Middle Dutch texts Modern Dutch Nederlands neuter o-stems occurred open syllables origin palatalised paradigm past participle phonetic phonology plat plural preserved pron pronounced pronunciation Randstad seventeenth century short vowel singular southern Netherlands speakers speech strong verbs Taal Umlaut unstressed usually Utrecht vocabulary Wallonia Walloons weak verbs West West Flemish words e.g. written zijn