South Guelderish (Dutch: Zuid-Gelders, German: Kleverländisch/ Kleefs) refers to a group of dialects of the Dutch language which are spoken along the Nederrijn, in the Netherlands and around the city of Cleves in Germany. They are sometimes included within Brabantic, a more widely spoken dialect of Dutch to which South Gelderish is most closely related, or considered to extend southward into Northern Limburg until the Uerdingen line. There are no clear borders in this dialect continuum, and the word "dialect", in singular, is often used to indicate groups of local varieties.
Within the Netherlands, South Guelderish is spoken in the following regions: the Veluwezoom National Park, Rijk van Nijmegen, Land van Maas en Waal, the Bommelerwaard, the Tielerwaard, the Betuwe and Liemers.
Famous quotes containing the word south:
“In the far South the sun of autumn is passing
Like Walt Whitman walking along a ruddy shore.
He is singing and chanting the things that are part of him,
The worlds that were and will be, death and day.
Nothing is final, he chants. No man shall see the end.
His beard is of fire and his staff is a leaping flame.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)