Stellingwarfs dialect

Stellingwarfs
Stellingwarfs, Stellingwerf
Native to	Netherlands
Region	Northeast, Stellingwerven region, Friesland Province. Centers are Oosterwolde and Wolvega.
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Low Saxon West Low Saxon (Dutch Low Saxon) Stellingwarfs
Official status
Official language in	Netherlands - Recognized by the government in 1996 (being part of Low Saxonian).^[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`stl`
Glottolog	`stel1238`^[2]

Stellingwarfs (Dutch: Stellingwerfs) is the form of Dutch Low Saxon spoken in Ooststellingwerf and Weststellingwerf in the Dutch province of Friesland, and also in Steenwijkerland in the Dutch province of Overijssel.

Geographic distribution

Some include Veenkoloniaals within Stellingwarfs; Veenkoloniaals is spoken in the village of Noordwolde, Friesland.

The language was recognized by the government of the Netherlands in 1996 (as being part of Low Saxonian).^[3]

Stellingwarfs is easily intelligible for many Dutch people. There is modern literature in Stellingwarfs.

Like Het Bildt and Leeuwarden, Weststellingwerf and Ooststellingwerf are among the municipalities of Friesland, where West Frisian is not spoken.

Languages and dialects of Benelux

Dutch Brabantian East Flemish Hollandic South Hollandic South Guelderish West Flemish Zeelandic Dutch Low Saxon Achterhoeks Drèents East Frisian Gronings Sallands Stellingwarfs Tweants Urkers Veluws English French Champenois Lorrain Picard Walloon German Ripuarian Limburgish Low Dietsch Luxembourgish Papiamento West Frisian Stadsfries

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Low Saxon edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

↑ http://archive.ethnologue.com/16/show_language.asp?code=stl
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Stellingwerfs". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ http://archive.ethnologue.com/16/show_language.asp?code=stl

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