Bildts () is a
conservative Hollandic dialect spoken in the largest part of the former municipality
Het Bildt
Het or HET may refer to:
Science and technology
* Hall-effect thruster, a type of ion thruster used for spacecraft propulsion
* Heavy Equipment Transporter, a vehicle in the US Army's Heavy Equipment Transport System
* Hobby–Eberly Telescope ...
in the Dutch province of
Friesland.
The dialect retains features from around 1505, when the area was reclaimed from the sea as ordered by
George, Duke of Saxony. In order to achieve this task, workers from
Holland,
Zeeland, and
Brabant moved to
Friesland. The apparent similarity to present-day
Frisian is due to the evolution of Frisian from the sixteenth century into the present.
Bildts is spoken in the towns of
Sint Annaparochie
Sint Annaparochie (West Frisian language, West Frisian and Bildts: ''Sint-Anne'') is a village in the municipality of Waadhoeke in Friesland, Netherlands. It lies approximately northwest of Leeuwarden and had approximately 4,830 inhabitants in 20 ...
(Bildts: Sint-Anne),
Sint Jacobiparochie (Sint-Jabik),
Vrouwenparochie (Froubuurt),
Oudebildtzijl (Ouwe-Syl),
Westhoek (De Westhoek) and
Nij Altoenae. The inhabitants of
Minnertsga, a village located outside the
polder
A polder () is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as dikes. The three types of polder are:
# Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a lake or the seabed
# Flood plains s ...
area of the former
Middelzee and included in the municipality in 1984, do not speak Bildts but West Frisian instead.
References
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Dutch dialects
Waadhoeke
Culture of Friesland
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