Extent
Limburgish has partially overlapping definition areas, depending on the criteria used:
- 1 All dialects spoken within the political boundary of the two Limburg provinces.
- 2 Limburgish according to Jo Daan, the associative "arrow" method of Meertens Institute.
- 3 South Lower Franconian, isogloss definition between Uerdingen and Benrather lines by Wenker, Schrijnen and Goossens (University of Leuven).
- 4 Western limit of Limburgish pitch accent (Largest lexical distance from Standard Dutch, Hoppenbrouwers)
- 5 Southeast Limburgish (Wintgens and Frins), this includes a part of Ripuarian in Germany. (See also Low Dietsch.)
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