Tweants

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Tweants is a Low Saxon regional dialect spoken in the Twente region of the eastern Netherlands.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tweants canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Low Saxon dialect
West Germanic language variety
regional dialect
closelyRelatedTo Achterhoeks
linked to: Achterhooks

Sallands
Westphalian
linked to: Westphalia
country Netherlands
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasAlternativeName Twents
Twents Low Saxon
linked to: Dutch Low Saxon

Twents Nedersaksisch
hasCulturalAssociation Twente identity
linked to: Twente region
hasDialect Almeloos
linked to: Almelo

Borne dialect
Denekamps
linked to: Denekamp

Enschedees
Glanerbrug dialect
Hengelose dialect
Oldenzaals
linked to: Oldenzaal

Ootmarsums
linked to: Ootmarsum
hasISOStatus no separate ISO 639-3 code
hasMorphologicalFeature case remnants in pronouns
strong and weak verb distinction
hasOrganization Stichting Twentse Taal en Cultuur
Stichting Twentse Welle
hasPhonologicalFeature diphthongization
final-obstruent devoicing
vowel length distinctions
hasSyntacticFeature use of double negation in some varieties
verb-second word order
influencedBy Dutch language
Standard Dutch
linked to: Dutch language
languageFamily Germanic languages
Indo-European languages
West Germanic languages
partOf Dutch Low Saxon language area
linked to: Dutch Low Saxon

Low Saxon continuum
recognizedAs regional language in the Netherlands
region Twente
spokenIn Overijssel NERFINISHED
Twente
eastern Netherlands
subclassOf Dutch Low Saxon
West Low German
linked to: Westphalian dialect
usedIn local media in Twente
music from Twente
regional literature
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Twente hasRegionalDialect Tweants
Oldenzaal regionalLanguage Tweants
Enschede regionalLanguage Tweants
Borne hasMinorityLanguage Tweants