Sallaans ( nl, Sallands;
Low Saxon: ''Sallaands'') is a collective term for the
Westphalian dialects of the region
Salland
Salland (Low Saxon: ''Sallaand'') is a historical dominion in the west and north of the present Dutch province of Overijssel. Nowadays Salland is usually used to indicate a region corresponding to the part of the former dominion more or less to th ...
, in the
province
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of
Overijssel, as well as in minor parts of
Gelderland
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and
Drenthe in the Eastern
Netherlands
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. In the
Kop van Overijssel, the
Stellingwarfs dialect is spoken.
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
Dalfsen (; Dutch Low Saxon: ) is a municipality and a town in the Salland region of the Dutch province of Overijssel. The municipality of Dalfsen was increased to its current size on 1 January 2001 through the amalgamation of the municipalities ...
. 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' (Standard Dutch ''huis'' ) is ''hoes'' in Twents but ''huus'' in Sallaans. The Hollandic dialects of the 17th century still had not diphthongized to , and due to their prestigious status they triggered the shift from to .
[G.G. Kloeke (1927) De Hollandsche expansie in de zestiende en zeventiende eeuw en haar weerspiegeling in de hedendaagsche Nederlandsche dialecten: Proeve eener historisch-dialectgeographische synthese]
Phonology
Consonants
* appears only as an allophone of before voiced consonants.
* // occurring before and after back-rounded vowels is pronounced as a labio-velar approximant [].
* After long close and close-mid vowels, surfaces as a diphthongization of the vowel, as in ''zoer'' . This also happens in compounds: ''veurkämer'' . It is also often dropped preconsonantally after .
Vowels
* Unlike in Standard Dutch, the long close-mid monophthongs are actual monophthongs and not narrow closing diphthongs . They do not appear before whenever that consonant occurs before a vowel or at the end of a word, where the open-mid series occurs instead.
* is realized as before vowels and in the word-final position.
Some examples
Present tense
Past tense
Plurals and diminutives
References
Bibliography
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Further reading
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External links
The Parable of the Prodigal Son in the ''Zwolle'' variety of Sallaans
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Westphalian dialects
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Languages of the Netherlands
Culture of Drenthe
Culture of Overijssel
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