Hasselt dialect
| Hasselt dialect | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Belgium |
| Region | Hasselt |
Germanic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Hasselt dialect or Hasselt Limburgish is the city dialect and variant of Limburgish spoken in the Belgian city of Hasselt alongside the Dutch language (with which it is not mutually intelligible). All of its speakers are bilingual with standard Dutch.[1]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Dorsal | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive / Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | k | ||
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | x | h |
| voiced | v | z | ɣ | |||
| Trill | ʀ | |||||
| Approximant | β | l | j | |||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | unrounded | |||||
| short | long | short | long | short | short | long | |
| Close | i | iː | y | yː | u | uː | |
| Near-close | ɪ | ||||||
| Close-mid | eː | ø | øː | oː | |||
| Mid | ə | ɔ | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɛː | œ | œː | ɔː | ||
| Open | æ | aː | ɑ | ɑː | |||
- The front rounded vowels /y, yː, ø, øː, œ, œː/, as well as the front unrounded /aː/ are somewhat retracted [y̠, y̠ː, ø̠, ø̠ː, œ̠, œ̠ː, a̠ː], but not retracted enough to be classified as central vowels.[3]
- All of the back vowels are almost fully back.[3]
- /oː/ is a marginal vowel. Its occurence is restricted to loanwords from standard Dutch and English.[3]
- /ə/ occurs only in unstressed syllables.[4]
- /ɔ/ is mid [ɔ̝], whereas /ɔː/ is open-mid [ɔː].[3]
- /æ/ is near-open, whereas /aː, ɑ, ɑː/ are open.[3]
References
- ^ a b Peters (2006), p. 117.
- ^ Peters (2006), pp. 118–119.
- ^ a b c d e Peters (2006), p. 119.
- ^ Peters (2006), p. 118.
Bibliography
- Peters, Jörg (2006), "The dialect of Hasselt" (PDF), Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 36 (1): 117–124, doi:10.1017/S0025100306002428