Platdiets
Platdiets or Plattdütsch ( limb. Platduutsj , French. Francique rhéno-mosan , thiois ), sometimes also referred to as Low German , is an East Limburg - Ripuarian transition dialect. Not to be confused is the dialect with the equally as Low German called Low German . The dialect is spoken in the north of the Verviers district in the Belgian province of Liège .
Importance and distribution
Platdiets is spoken on the one hand in the Low German communities , more precisely in the three communities Bleyberg (e.g. Gemmenich with the Gemmenicher Platt , Homburg and Montzen ), Baelen and Welkenraedt . This area is known in Dutch as the Platdietse Streek . The Platdietse dialect is also sometimes spoken in neighboring Eupen ( Eupener Platt ) and Lontzen . It is the southernmost dialect of a closely related group of southern Lower Franconian border dialects (collectively referred to as the East Limburg-Ripuarian transition area). B. also include dialects in southeast Limburg (in the Netherlands) and Bergisch (on the German central Lower Rhine ). This dialect group belongs to the Limburg dialect area in the Rhenish fan .
It is spoken with all varieties in a semicircle around 20 km around Aachen and two thirds of the Dutch south-east Limburg and is also referred to by some authors as the "Dreiländerplatt". Platdiets represents the language of the old Duchy of Limburg , which had its historical core there.
See also
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- ↑ Christoph Pan, Beate Sibylle Pfeil, 2002: Minority Rights in Europe .
- ↑ Welschen 2005, Frins 2005, 2006.