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Westphalian language

NameWestphalian
FamilycolorIndo-European
StatesGermany, Netherlands
RegionNorthwestern, Westphalia
Speakersunknown
Fam1Indo-European
Fam2Germanic
Fam3West Germanic
Fam4Low Saxon
Iso2gem [Germanic, other]
Iso3wep

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Westphalian ( ) is one of the major dialect groups of West Low German. Its most salient feature is the diphthongization (rising diphthongs). For example, we get iEten instead of Eːten for eat. (There is also a difference in the use of consonants within the Westphalian dialects: North of the Wiehengebirge, people tend to speak unvoiced consonants, south of the Wiehengebirge they speak voiced consonants, e.g. Foite <-> Foide.)

The Westphalian dialect region includes the north-eastern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, i.e. the former Prussian province of Westphalia, without Siegerland and Wittgenstein, but including the southern part of former government district Weser-Ems (e.g. the region around Osnabrück and the landscape of Emsland).

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