Everything about Brabantic totally explained
Brabantian or
Brabantish, also:
Brabantic (Brabantian:
Braobans; ) is a dialect group of the
Dutch language named after the historical
Duchy of Brabant which corresponded mainly to the
Dutch province of
North Brabant, the
Belgian provinces of
Antwerp and
Flemish Brabant, as well as the
institutional Region of Brussels-Capital where its native speakers became a minority — and the province of
Walloon Brabant where French has caused the dialects to become extinct. Brabantian expands into small parts in the west of
Limburg while its strong influence on the Flemish dialects in
East-Flanders weakens towards the west. In the northwest of North Brabant (
Willemstad),
Hollandic is spoken. Conventionally, the
South Guelderish dialects are distinguished from Brabantian, though there are no objective criteria apart from geography to do this.
Because of the relatively large area in which Brabantian is spoken, it can be roughly divided in three sub-dialects:
- West Brabantian, spoken in the area west of the river Donge; in the west of North Brabant (the area around the cities Breda and Roosendaal) and in the north and west of the Province of Antwerp in Belgium.
- East Brabantian, spoken in the area east of the river Donge; in the middle and east of North Brabant (the area around the cities Tilburg, Eindhoven, 's-Hertogenbosch and Helmond), the east of the Province of Antwerp and the far west of the Province of Limburg.
- South Brabantian, spoken in the province of Flemish Brabant and the south of Antwerp.
Brabantian isn't recognized as a minority language in the
Netherlands: as standard Dutch is partly based on Brabantian, there's no need of a separate Brabantian standard.
About one third of the Dutch-speaking population lives in the Brabantian dialect zone. In large Dutch towns such as Breda and Eindhoven, where there are many people of Hollandic descent speaking standard Dutch, Brabantian dialects have been largely abandoned, whereas in rural areas many people still speak the original dialect. Tilburg and 's-Hertogenbosch, however, have a large number of people speaking the Brabantian dialect.
In
Belgium, dialects are still the common spoken language. In the capital of
Brussels, French largely replaced Dutch in the middle of the 20th century. Despite this, there are many cultural activities using the Brussels dialect, and recently also at
masses in a church in
Jette. Moreover, use of Dutch is reviving among young Dutch-speaking families who are moving back from the suburbs toward the old city centre.
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