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Orsmaal Gussenhoven dialect

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Native to
  
Belgium

Glottolog
  
None

Region
  
Linter

Language family
  
Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Low Franconian Dutch Brabantian dialect Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect

The Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect is a subdialect of Brabantian spoken in Orsmaal-Gussenhoven, a village in the Linter municipality.

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Consonants

  • /h/ is restricted to morpheme-initial position. It may be dropped by some speakers, either sometimes or always.
  • /r/ has a few possible realizations:
  • Apical trill [r] or an apical fricative [ɹ̝] before a stressed vowel in word-initial syllables.
  • Intervocalically and in the onset after a consonant, it may be a tap [ɾ].
  • Word-final /r/ is highly variable; the most frequent variants are an apical trill fricative [r̝], an apical fricative [ɹ̝] and an apical rhotic affricate [ɾ͡ɹ̝]. The last two variants tend to be voiceless ([ɹ̝̊, ɾ̥͡θ̠]) in pre-pausal position.
  • The sequence /ər/ can be realized as [ɐ], as in many varieties of German. Alternatively, /r/ can be dropped: [ə].
  • /β, j/ appear only word-initially and intervocalically.

    • Vowels

  • Short /y, o/ occur only in a few loanwords from French.
  • Among the open-mid vowels, only /ɛː, œː/ are open-mid [ɛː, œː], whereas /ɛ, œ, ə, ɔ/ are actually mid [ɛ̝, œ̝, ə, ɔ̝].
  • /ə/ occurs only in unstressed syllables.
  • When stressed, short vowels cannot occur in open syllables. Exceptions to this rule are high-frequency words like [βa] 'what', and loanwords from French, such as [dəˈpo] 'depot'.
  • /iə, eə, ɛə/ occur syllable-finally and before labial and alveolar consonants, where they contrast with /iː, eː, ɛː/.
  • /ɔə/ appears only before tautosyllabic /t, d/.

    • References

    Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect Wikipedia
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