Flemish/Dutch dialects

[Steve Gustafson]

C. Michiel Driessen wrote:

> The dialects of South Limburg Limburg (both the Belgian and the Dutch parts)
> are tone languages, however. They have two phonological tones, that can make
> a semantic difference and a morphological difference (they create the
> singular versus the plural in certain categories of nouns).

Many Scandinavian dialects, at least those outside of Denmark, have tone
phonemes that seem similar.  There are minimal pairs allowing the
distinguishing of different words, and some also are involved in the
distinguishing of singular and plural, especially in some dialects that
drop final -r's.