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Gronings dialect

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Gronings, in the dialect itself called Grunnegs or Grönnegs, is a collective name for some Friso-Saxon dialects spoken in the province of Groningen and around the Groningen border in Drenthe and Friesland. [1]

49 relations: Accent (sociolinguistics), Alliteration, Cannabis, Delfzijl, Drenthe, Dutch language, Dutch Low Saxon, East Frisia, East Frisian Low Saxon, Ede Staal, English language, Friesland, Frisia, Friso-Saxon dialects, German dialects, German language, Germanic languages, Glottal stop, Groningen, Groningen (province), Hanseatic League, High German languages, Hoogezand-Sappemeer, Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, Kollumerpomp, Kornelis ter Laan, Limburgish, Low German, Middle Dutch, Netherlands, Noordenveld, Northern Low Saxon, Old Frisian, Ommelanden, Rheiderland, Saterland Frisian language, Scots language, Stadskanaal, University of Groningen, Variety (linguistics), Veendam, Weather forecasting, West Frisian language, West Germanic languages, West Low German, Westerwolde (region), Westphalian language, Winschoten, YouTube.

Accent (sociolinguistics)

In sociolinguistics, an accent is a manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, location, or nation.

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Alliteration

Alliteration is a figure of speech and a stylistic literary device which is identified by the repeated sound of the first or second letter in a series of words, or the repetition of the same letter sounds in stressed syllables of a phrase.

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Cannabis

Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae.

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Delfzijl

Delfzijl (Gronings: Delfsiel) is a city and municipality with a population of 25,651 in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands.

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Drenthe

Drenthe is a province of the Netherlands located in the northeastern part of the country.

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Dutch language

The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.

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Dutch Low Saxon

Dutch Low Saxon (Nederlands Nedersaksisch; Dutch Low Saxon: Nederlaands Leegsaksies) are the Low Saxon dialects that are spoken in the northeastern Netherlands and are written there with local, unstandardised orthographies based on Standard Dutch orthography.

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East Frisia

East Frisia or Eastern Friesland (Ostfriesland; East Frisian Low Saxon: Oostfreesland; Oost-Friesland) is a coastal region in the northwest of the German federal state of Lower Saxony.

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East Frisian Low Saxon

East Frisian Low German or East Frisian Low Saxon is one of the Friso-Saxon dialects, a West Low German dialect spoken in the East Frisian peninsula of northwestern Lower Saxony.

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Ede Staal

Ede Ulfert Staal (2 August 1941 – 22 July 1986) was a Dutch singer-songwriter from the Northern province of Groningen who sang mainly in Gronings dialect.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Friesland

Friesland (official, Fryslân), also historically known as Frisia, is a province of the Netherlands located in the northern part of the country.

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Frisia

Frisia (Fryslân, Dutch and Friesland) is a coastal region along the southeastern corner of the North Sea in what today is mostly a large part of the Netherlands, including modern Friesland, and smaller parts of northern Germany.

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Friso-Saxon dialects

Friso-Saxon is a collective name for a group of West Germanic dialects found around the North Sea coast of the Netherlands and Germany, in an area historically known as Frisia.

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German dialects

German dialect is dominated by the geographical spread of the High German consonant shift, and the dialect continua that connect German to the neighbouring varieties of Low Franconian (Dutch) and Frisian.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa.

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Glottal stop

The glottal stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis.

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Groningen

Groningen (Gronings: Grunnen) is the main municipality as well as the capital city of the eponymous province in the Netherlands.

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Groningen (province)

Groningen (Gronings: Grunn; Grinslân) is the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands.

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Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League (Middle Low German: Hanse, Düdesche Hanse, Hansa; Standard German: Deutsche Hanse; Latin: Hansa Teutonica) was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central Europe.

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High German languages

The High German languages or High German dialects (hochdeutsche Mundarten) comprise the varieties of German spoken south of the Benrath and Uerdingen isoglosses in central and southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Luxembourg, as well as in neighboring portions of France (Alsace and northern Lorraine), Italy (South Tyrol), the Czech Republic (Bohemia), and Poland (Upper Silesia).

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Hoogezand-Sappemeer

Hoogezand-Sappemeer is a former municipality in the northeastern Netherlands.

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Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland

Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland (Frisian: Kollumerlân en Nijkrúslân), officially abbreviated as Kollumerland c.a. is a municipality in the Northern Netherlands, located in the province of Friesland.

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Kollumerpomp

Kollumerpomp (Low Saxon: De Pomp) is a small village in Kollumerland c.a. in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands.

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Kornelis ter Laan

Kornelis ter Laan (Gronings:Knelis ter Loan) (8 July 1871 - 6 March 1963), also referred to as Kees ter Laan and Klaas ter Laan, was a Dutch politician and linguist.

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Limburgish

LimburgishLimburgish is pronounced, whereas Limburgan, Limburgian and Limburgic are, and.

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Low German

Low German or Low Saxon (Plattdütsch, Plattdüütsch, Plattdütsk, Plattduitsk, Nedersaksies; Plattdeutsch, Niederdeutsch; Nederduits) is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands.

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Middle Dutch

Middle Dutch is a collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects (whose ancestor was Old Dutch) spoken and written between 1150 and 1500.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Noordenveld

Noordenveld is a municipality in the northeastern Netherlands.

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Northern Low Saxon

Northern Low Saxon (in Low German: Noordneddersassisch) is a West Low German dialect.

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Old Frisian

Old Frisian is a West Germanic language spoken between the 8th and 16th centuries in the area between the Rhine and Weser on the European North Sea coast.

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Ommelanden

The Ommelanden (Surrounding Lands) are the parts of Groningen province that surround Groningen city.

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Rheiderland

The Rheiderland is a region of Germany and the Netherlands between the River Ems and the Bay of Dollart.

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Saterland Frisian language

Saterland Frisian, also known as Sater Frisian or Saterlandic (Seeltersk), is the last living dialect of the East Frisian language.

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Scots language

Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots).

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Stadskanaal

Stadskanaal is a town and municipality with a population of 32,715 in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands.

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University of Groningen

The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands.

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Variety (linguistics)

In sociolinguistics a variety, also called a lect, is a specific form of a language or language cluster.

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Veendam

Veendam is a town and municipality with a population of 27,752 in the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands.

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Weather forecasting

Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the conditions of the atmosphere for a given location and time.

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West Frisian language

West Frisian, or simply Frisian (Frysk; Fries) is a West Germanic language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland (Fryslân) in the north of the Netherlands, mostly by those of Frisian ancestry.

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West Germanic languages

The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the extinct East Germanic languages).

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West Low German

West Low German, also known as Low Saxon (Niedersächsisch or Westniederdeutsch; literally: Nether-saxon; Nedersassisch, Nedersaksies, Platduuts, Plat(t); Nedersaksisch) is a group of Low German (also Low Saxon; German: Niederdeutsch or Plattdeutsch, Dutch: Nederduits) dialects spoken in parts of the Netherlands, northwestern Germany and southern Denmark (in North Schleswig by the German minority).

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Westerwolde (region)

Westerwolde is a region in the province Groningen in the north of the Netherlands.

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Westphalian language

Westphalian or Westfalish (German Westfälisch) is one of the major dialect groups of West Low German.

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Winschoten

Winschoten (Gronings: Winschoot) is a city with a population of 18,518 in the municipality of Oldambt in the northeast of the Netherlands.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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Groningan, Groningan Low Saxon, Gronings, Gronings Low Saxon, Gronings dialects, Gronings en Noord-Drents, Gronings language, Grunnegs, Grunnengs, Grönnegs, ISO 639:gos, Veenkoloniaals language, Westerwolds language.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gronings_dialect

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