Venlo dialect

Venlo dialect (Dutch and Limburgish: Venloos) is the city dialect and a variant of Limburgish spoken in the Dutch city of Venlo alongside the Dutch language (with which it is not mutually intelligible). It belongs to South Guelderish Limburgish, which is a group of transitional dialects between Kleverlandish and East Limburgish spoken in the northern part of Netherlands Limburg. That group of dialects is also known by its Dutch name Mich-kwartier ("Mich area", based on the usage of mich /ˈmɪx/ instead of the Brabantian mij /ˈmɛɪ/ as the accusative form of ik 'I').

Venlo dialect
Venloos
Pronunciation[ˈvɛnloːs]
Native toNetherlands
RegionVenlo
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
GlottologNone

Phonology

Vowels
Vowel phonemes[1]
Front Central Back
unrounded rounded
short long short long short long short long
Close i ⟨ie⟩ iː ⟨iê⟩ y ⟨uu⟩ yː ⟨uû⟩ u ⟨oe⟩ uː ⟨oê⟩
Close-mid ɪ ⟨i⟩ eː ⟨ee⟩ ʏ ⟨u⟩ øː ⟨eu⟩ ə ⟨e⟩ ʊ ⟨ó⟩ oː ⟨oo⟩
Open-mid ɛ ⟨e⟩ ɛː ⟨ae⟩ œ ⟨ö⟩ œː ⟨äö⟩ ɒ ⟨o⟩ ɒː ⟨ao⟩
Open aː ⟨aa⟩ ɑ ⟨a⟩
  • /ə/ is restricted to unstressed syllables.
  • /oː/ is near-close [o̝ː].[2]
  • /ɛ/ is the only "short open E" sound in the dialect. The phonetically open [æ] does not have a phonemic status, and it is unclear whether it even appears as an allophone of /ɛ/.
  • /ɒ, ɒː/ are phonetically open but phonologically open-mid, the back counterparts of /œ, œː/.
  • /aː/ is somewhat 'laxer' [ɐː] than in Standard Dutch.[3] As in most other dialects, it is the phonological long counterpart of /ɑ/.

Pitch accent
Main article: Pitch-accent language § Franconian dialects

As many other Limburgish dialects, the Venlo dialect features a contrastive pitch accent, with minimal pairs such speule /ˈspøːlə/ 'to rinse' vs. speule /ˈspǿːlə/ 'to play' and bein /ˈbɛɪn/ 'legs' vs. bein /ˈbɛ́ɪn/ 'leg', with the first word in each pair featuring Accent 1 (left unmarked) and the second word Accent 2 (transcribed as a high tone).[4][5]

Bibliography
  • Gussenhoven, Carlos; van der Vliet, Peter (1999), "The phonology of tone and intonation in the Dutch dialect of Venlo", Journal of Linguistics, 35: 99–135, doi:10.1017/S0022226798007324
  • Peeters, F.J.P. (1951), Het klankkarakter van het Venloos, Nijmegen: Dekker & v.d. Vegt

References
  1. Peeters (1951), p. 36.
  2. Peeters (1951), p. 32.
  3. Peeters (1951), p. 39.
  4. Peeters (1951), pp. 137–141.
  5. Gussenhoven & van der Vliet (1999), pp. 101–105.
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