page_title: Limburgish
section_title: Extent
hierarchical_section_title: Limburgish / Extent
caption_attribution_description: English: A comparison of definitions of "Lèmbörgs" dialect Nederlands: Een vergelijking van bestaande verschillende definities voor "limburgs"
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.
context_section_description: Limburgish has partially overlapping definition areas, depending on the criteria used:
  All dialects spoken within the political boundary of the two Limburg provinces.
  Limburgish according to Jo Daan, the associative "arrow" method of Meertens Institute.
  South Lower Franconian, isogloss definition between the Uerdingen and Benrath lines by Wenker, Schrijnen and Goossens (University of Leuven).
  Western limit of Limburgish pitch accent (Largest lexical distance from Standard Dutch, Hoppenbrouwers)
  Southeast Limburgish dialect (Wintgens and Frins); this includes a part of the Ripuarian language in Germany.
caption: Limburgish using several definitions.
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