page_title: Limburgish
section_title: Subdivisions of Limburgish
hierarchical_section_title: Limburgish / Subdivisions of Limburgish
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Einteilungskarte der limburgischen Dialekte
context_page_description: Limburgish, also called Limburgan, Limburgian, or Limburgic, is a group of East Low Franconian varieties spoken in the Belgian and Dutch provinces both named Limburg and some neighbouring areas of Germany. In some parts of this area it is generally used as the colloquial language in daily speech.
  It shares many characteristics with both German and Dutch and is often considered as a variant of one of these languages; its speakers refer to themselves as either ethnic Dutchmen, Flemings or Germans rather than Limburgers, which is a regional identification. Within the modern communities of the Belgian and Dutch provinces of Limburg, intermediate idiolects are also very common, which combine standard Dutch with the accent and some grammatical and pronunciation tendencies derived from Limburgish. This "Limburgish Dutch" is confusingly also often referred to simply as "Limburgish", although in Belgium such intermediate idiolects tend to be called tussentaal, no matter the exact dialect/language with which standard Dutch is combined.
caption: Limburgish is the group divided by the river Rhine between Duisburg and Düsseldorf on this map.
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