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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Language varieties" 2009.08.28 (01) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="im">
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<div><font size="2">> From: Roger Thijs,
Euro-Support, Inc. <</font><a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be" target="_blank"><font size="2">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</font></a><font size="2">></font></div>
<div><font size="2">> Subject: LL-L Language
varieties</font></div>
<div><font size="2">> De Standaard of
today has a full page on the progression of Brabantish as local form of Dutch in
Northern Belgium.<br>> Here is a log of the page in pdf from the
subscribers-only part of the website:<br>> </font><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/brab/brab.pdf" target="_blank"><font size="2">http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/brab/brab.pdf</font></a></div></div>
</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">> ... - The official Dutch in Belgium has some local
vocabulary and particularities. I would define it as "<strong>Belgian
Dutch</strong>". ....</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">> ... - A special regiolect developped over a large area,
under influence of migration towards houses on new land divisions, and it got
the name "<strong>Verkavelingsvlaams</strong>". It found its ways in TV soap and
tends to develop towards an kind of accepted standard. It is not based on
"Flemish" nor "Limburgish" dialects but largely on "<strong>Brabantish</strong>"
dialects. This is where the article is all about.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Where the previous url referred to the central "<strong>regiolect</strong>"
"<strong>Verkavelingsvlaams</strong>", De Standaard of today had a page on
"<strong>Belgian Dutch</strong>", called a "<strong>natiolect</strong>" in the
article..</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I logged it at: <a href="http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/gordel/bn.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/gordel/bn.pdf</a></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">See some language samples in the blue box on the page.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Interesting is also the new language-political view:</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Before dictionaries had "<strong>Standaard Dutch</strong>" as a rule, with
some words marked as "<strong>Z Nl</strong>" (Zuid-Nederlands, Southern Standard
Dutch, referring to Belgium and incidentally including the Netherlandic
provinces South of the big rivers).</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The new approach will mark as well "<strong>Belgian Dutch</strong>" as also
"<strong>Netherlandic Dutch</strong>" on an equal basis. Most vocabulary
obviously will remain common and not be marked in one or another
sense.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The pdf pages are from the (paying) subscribers-only part of the website of
De Standaard. I will remove the pages from my tmp directory after a few
days.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Roger</div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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