Venlo dialect

Venlo dialect (Dutch and Limburgish: Venloos) or Venlo Limburgish is the city dialect and variant of Limburgish spoken in the Dutch city of Venlo alongside the Dutch language (with which it is not mutually intelligible).

Venlo dialect
Venloos
Pronunciation[ˈvænloːs]
Native toNetherlands
RegionVenlo
Indo-European
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
GlottologNone

Phonology

Pitch accent
Main article: Pitch-accent language § Franconian dialects

As many other Limburgish dialects, the Venlo dialect features a contrastive pitch accent, with minimal pair such speule /ˈspøːlə/ 'to rinse' vs. speule /ˈspǿːlə/ 'to play' and bein /ˈbɛin/ 'legs' vs. bein /ˈbɛ́in/ 'leg', with the first word in each pair featuring Accent 1 (left unmarked) and the second word Accent 2 (transcribed as a high tone).[1][2]

Bibliography
  • Gussenhoven, Carlos; van der Vliet, Peter (1999), "The phonology of tone and intonation in the Dutch dialect of Venlo", Journal of Linguistics, 35: 99–135, doi:10.1017/S0022226798007324
  • Peters, F.J.P. (1951), Het klankkarakter van het Venloos

References
  1. Peters (1951), pp. 137–141.
  2. Gussenhoven & van der Vliet (1999), pp. 101–105.
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