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Dutch Dialects
1) South-Hollands 2) Kennemerlands 3) WaterlandsWaterlndisch 4) Zaans 5) West-Fries- North-Hollands 6) Utrechts-Alblasserwaards 7) Zeeuws 8) Westhoeks 9) West-Vlaams and Zeeuws-Vlaams 10) Dialect of the area between West- and East-Vlaams 11) East-Vlaams 12) Dialect of the area between East-Vlaams and Brabants 13) Zuid-Gelders 14) North-Brabants and North-Limburgs 15) Brabants 16) Dialect of the area between Brabants and Limburgs 17) Limburgs 18) Veluws 19) Gelders-Overijssels 20) Twents-Graafschaps 21) Twents 22) Stellingswerfs 23) South-Drents 24) Middle-Drents 25) Kollumerlands 26) Gronings and Noord-Drents 27) Fries 28) Bildts, Stads-Fries, Midlands, Amelands
Key: Dialects
Holland; or The Netherlands, has many types of different dialects, which affect the unity of this country and the way people live. The different dialects cause dutch people to have a difficulty understanding people from a different region.
How Dialects Can Lead To Misconseptions
Dailects Can Affect People's Daily Lives
Geert Driessen and Virgie Withagen wrote about the changes somebody with one dialect may be able to understand another. “Dialects, which lie very close to each other in geographical terms, are often fairly easily understood by people living in a particular area. As the distance between the dialects increases, it becomes more difficult for people to understand each other.” This example shows that misconception may be present when someone from the South talks with someone from the North.
People might not understand each other when they are in their own town. Research in the dutch education shows that children are thought mostly standard dutch, causing the dialects to dissapear in the higher classes, although it still stays in the lower classes. Matthias Hning states, “Many dialects, especially those in towns, are now only used by speakers from the lower classes.” This statement shows that people from higher classes might not be able to understand the people of lower classes, even though they live in the same town. This can affect people’s daily lives because they cannot make themselves understood to other people.
How Dialects Affect The Unity of Holland
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Different dialects can affect the unity of Holland. Since not everybody can understand each other when they are speaking, the diverse dialects may lead to cultural misconceptions. These false impressions may lead to violence, which affects the unity of Holland
Study showed that Holland has about 28 different dialects.
Bibliography http://www.ned.univie.ac.at/publicaties/taalgeschiedenis/en/dial.htm http://www.ned.univie.ac.at/publicaties/taalgeschiedenis/en/dialkarte.htm http://www.xs4all.nl/~wjsn/tekst/dutchdialects.htm http://www.ned.univie.ac.at/publicaties/taalgeschiedenis/en/standardsprache.htm http://www.alberta-canada.com/. ../netherlands.cfm
anne1995 added this comment 2008-12-20 18:20:23-06:00
Cool, I from holland. i live in meijel by Eindhoven!
nellalullaby added this comment 2009-06-24 15:32:23-05:00
This is interesting! I'm half Dutch so i think this is really cool.
anne1995 added this comment 2008-12-20 18:20:23-06:00
Cool, I from holland. i live in meijel by Eindhoven!
nellalullaby added this comment 2009-06-24 15:32:23-05:00
This is interesting! I'm half Dutch so i think this is really cool.