Gronings

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Gronings is a Low Saxon dialect spoken in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands, known for its distinct phonology and vocabulary within the Dutch Low Saxon language group.

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Label Occurrences
Gronings canonical 5

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Low Saxon dialect
regional language variety
closelyRelatedTo Drents
East Frisian Low Saxon
Stellingwerfs
linked to: Weststellingwerf
country Netherlands
hasAlternativeName Gronings Low Saxon
linked to: Dutch Low Saxon

Gronings dialect
linked to: Dutch Low Saxon
hasDialect City of Groningen variety
Oldambt variety
Ommelanden variety
Westerkwartier variety
hasDistinctFeature consonant shifts compared to Standard Dutch
distinct phonology
distinct vocabulary
lexical items not found in Standard Dutch
strong regional accent
vowel changes compared to Standard Dutch
hasEndonym Grunnegs
hasGlottocode gron1241
hasISOCode nds
hasLexicalFeature loanwords from Dutch
loanwords from Frisian
hasPhonologicalFeature distinct intonation patterns
final obstruent devoicing
monophthongization of certain Dutch diphthongs
hasSociolinguisticStatus minority language in the Netherlands
non-official language of the Netherlands
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
influencedBy Dutch
Frisian
Standard German
languageFamily Germanic languages
Indo-European languages
West Germanic languages
partOf Dutch Low Saxon language group
linked to: Dutch Low Saxon
recognizedAs regional language in the Netherlands
region Groningen NERFINISHED
spokenIn northeastern Netherlands
province of Groningen
subclassOf Dutch Low Saxon
Low German
West Germanic language
West Low German
linked to: Westphalian dialect
usedFor everyday communication
literature
music
regional media

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Referenced by (5)

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

Twents closelyRelatedTo Gronings
Lutjegast languageUsed Gronings
Appingedam regionalLanguage Gronings
Oldehove hasMinorityLanguage Gronings