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limLimburgan  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Limburgish, also called Limburgian or Limburgic (Limburgish: Lèmbörgs [] Dutch: Limburgs , German: Limburgisch , French: Limbourgeois ) is a group of East Low Franconian language varieties spoken in the Limburg and Rhineland regions, near the common Dutch / Belgian / German border. The area in which it is spoken roughly fits within a wide circle from Venlo to Düsseldorf to Aachen to Maastricht to Hasselt and back to Tienen. In some parts of this area it is generally used as the colloquial language in daily speech.

Entry terms

  • Limburger
  • Limburgish
  • Limburgish language

ISO 639-1 code

  • li

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • lim

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • lim

ISO 639-3 code

  • lim

Notation

  • lim

In other languages

  • Limbourgeois

    French

  • limbourgeois
  • Limburgisch

    German

  • limburgese

    Italian

  • Lingua limburghese
  • Portuguese

  • Língua limburguesa
  • limburgués

    Spanish

  • Idioma limburgués

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/lim

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