Flemish dialect continuum

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The Flemish dialect continuum is a range of closely related Dutch dialects spoken in Flanders and surrounding regions, forming a gradual linguistic transition without sharp boundaries between varieties.

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Label Occurrences
Flemish dialect continuum canonical 1

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Dutch dialect group
dialect continuum
linguistic variety
borderCrosses Belgium–FranceBorder NERFINISHED
Belgium–NetherlandsBorder NERFINISHED
contrastedWith StandardizedFlemishDutch NERFINISHED
geographicalCore Dutch-speaking part of Belgium
hasAlternativeName Flemish dialect area NERFINISHED
Flemish dialect region NERFINISHED
hasBoundaryType gradientLinguisticBoundaries
hasCharacteristic gradualTransitionBetweenVarieties
mutualIntelligibilityBetweenNeighboringVarieties
noSharpDialectBoundaries
regionalLexicalVariation
regionalMorphosyntacticVariation
regionalPhonologicalVariation
hasDialect Brabantian NERFINISHED
East Flemish NERFINISHED
Limburgish NERFINISHED
West Flemish NERFINISHED
Zeelandic NERFINISHED
hasHistoricalRoot Middle Dutch dialects
hasWritingSystem LatinScript NERFINISHED
influencedBy Standard Dutch NERFINISHED
languageFamily Dutch language
overlapsWith Dutch–LowGermanDialectContinuum NERFINISHED
partOf Dutch language area
relatedTo Standard Dutch NERFINISHED
sharesIsoglossesWith Brabantian dialect area NERFINISHED
Limburgish dialect area NERFINISHED
West Flemish dialect area NERFINISHED
spokenIn Belgium NERFINISHED
Brabant NERFINISHED
Flanders NERFINISHED
Limburg NERFINISHED
Zeelandic Flanders NERFINISHED
northern France NERFINISHED
southern Netherlands NERFINISHED
standardizationBasedOn Standard Dutch NERFINISHED
studiedInDiscipline dialectology
sociolinguistics
usedBy Dutch-speakingBelgians
usedIn informalCommunication
localIdentityExpression

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Aalst dialect partOf Flemish dialect continuum