Sallaans dialect
Sallaans (Dutch: Sallands) is a collective term for the Dutch Low Saxon dialects of the region Salland, in the eastern Netherlands. A common term used by native speakers for their dialect, which is also used by Low Saxon speakers from other regions for their respective dialects, is plat or simply dialect. Yet another common usage is to refer to the language by the name of the local variety, where for instance Dal(f)sens would be the name for the Sallaans variety spoken in the village of Dalfsen. Sallands is more influenced by the Hollandic dialects than Twents or Achterhoeks. This influence is known as the Hollandse expansie. For example, the word 'house' is hoes in Twente but huus in Salland. The Hollandic dialects of the 17th century still had uu sounds in their vocabulary, and these uu sounds came into Sallands.
Sallaans | |
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Native to | Netherlands |
Indo-European
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | sdz |
Glottolog | sall1238 [1] |
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Dorsal | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||
Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | |
voiced | b | d | (ɡ) | ||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | χ | h |
voiced | v | z | ɣ | ||
Trill | r | ||||
Approximant | ʋ | l | j |
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
unrounded | rounded | ||||||
short | long | short | long | short | long | ||
Close | i | iː | y | yː | u | uː | |
Close-mid | ɪ | eː | ʏ | øː | ə | ʊ | oː |
Open-mid | ɛ | ɛː | œ | œː | ɔ | ɔː | |
Open | æ | æː | ɑ | ɑː |
- Unlike in Standard Dutch, the long close-mid monophthongs /eː, øː, oː/ are actual monophthongs and not narrow closing diphthongs [ei, øy, ou]. They do not appear before /r/ whenever that consonant occurs before a vowel or at the end of a word, where the open-mid series /ɛː, œː, ɔː/ occurs instead.[6]
- The schwa /ə/ is often dropped before /n/, resulting in a syllabic nasal homorganic with the preceding consonant. This occurs after most consonants, including nasals themselves: piepen [ˈpiːpm̩], slóffen [ˈslʊfɱ̍], gieten [ˈχiːtn̩], kieken [ˈkikŋ̍], esprungen [əˈspruŋŋ̍], lachen [ˈlɑχɴ̩]. The sequences /əl/ and /ər/ are treated the same, except for the fact that they do not assimilate to the place of articulation of the preceding consonant.[7]
Front | Back | |||
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Close | ij, iu | yi, yu | uw | |
Open | ɛi ɪu | œy | ɔi ʊi | ɑu |
- /œy/ is realized as [œi] before vowels and in the word-final position.[9]
Some examples
Present tense
Sallaans | Dutch | English |
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Ik loop(e) | Ik loop | I walk |
Ie loopt | Jij loopt | You walk |
Hee/hi'j / Zie/zi'j lup(t) | Hij / Zij loopt | He / she walks |
Wie loopt / loop'n | Wij lopen | We walk |
Jullie / Juulu loopt / loop'n | Jullie lopen | You walk (plural) |
Zie loopt / loop'n | Zij lopen | They walk |
Past tense
Sallaans | Dutch | English |
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Ik liepe | Ik liep | I walked |
Ie liep'n | Jij liep | You walked |
Hee / Zee liep | Hij / Zij liep | He / She walked |
Wuu-lu liep'n | Wij liepen | We walked |
Jullie / Juu-lu liep'n | Jullie liepen | You walked (plural) |
Zie liep'n | Zij liepen | They walked |
Plurals and diminutives
Sallaans | Dutch | English |
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eene komme | een kom | One bowl |
twee komm'n | twee kommen | Two bowls |
Sallaans | Dutch | English |
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een kömmegie | een kommetje | one little bowl |
twee kömmegies | twee kommetjes | two little bowls |
References
Low Saxon edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sallands". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Spa (2011), pp. 40, 47.
- Spa (2011), p. 47.
- Spa (2011), pp. 42–43.
- Spa (2011), pp. 11–35.
- Spa (2011), pp. 19, 21, 23, 42.
- Spa (2011).
- Spa (2011), pp. 35–39.
- Spa (2011), p. 44.
Bibliography
- Spa, J.J. (2011). De dialecten van centraal-Salland: Raalte, Heino en Lemelerveld.
Further reading
- Nijen Twilhaar, Jan (1999), "Deventer", in Kruijsen, Joep; van der Sijs, Nicoline (eds.), Honderd Jaar Stadstaal (PDF), Uitgeverij Contact, pp. 59–73