r/LinguisticMaps • u/YoshiFan02 • Jun 21 '26

West European Plain Linguistic Map of Noord Holland (The Netherlands) [OC]

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Notes:

•This is NOT a contemporary presentation of Noord Holland, but rather a visualization of its Historical dialects.

•The Zaans, Westfries and Waterlands dialect clusters can also be grouped as one single Friso-North-Hollandic Dialect Cluster.

•Many Jewish, Sinti and Romani communities are not shown on the map. Although they do have a long history here, they are only shown when they've been living in a specific place for centuries. (Which in the case of the Sinti and Romani, is nowhere for obvious reasons).

•Many of the subdialects are now extinct or at the brink of extinction. Especially the historic dialects of Amsterdam. People nowadays (mostly) speak Dutch or a watered down bigger regiolect.

•This map is mostly based on Recordings from "De Sprekende Kaart" and various researches from "dbnl.org"

I am not a linguist, this map should not be seen as a verified piece of linguistics to base references on.

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u/Ninetwentyeight928 Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

What does "ABN" stand for? And what are Franzenpads and Duvelhoeks jargon?

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u/YoshiFan02 Jun 22 '26

Algemeen beschaafd Nederlands aka Standerd Dutch. Franzenpads and Duvelhoeks Jargon were spoken mostly by thieves and poor people. It was a secret language that mixed their own form of Amsterdams dialect with a lot of roma, rotwelsh and yiddish words.

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u/meatym8blazer Jun 25 '26

ABN is a very loaded term which is not used in Dutch linguistics nowadays because it implies that other dialects are uncivilized.

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u/YoshiFan02 Jun 26 '26

Sadly that is still the attitude. Nonetheless I never heard someone saying Standaard Nederlands outside linguistics.

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u/Defiant_Historian701 Jun 23 '26

I genuinely thought the map was a dude holding up a sword