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Limburgish, also called Limburgian or Limburgic (Limburgish: ''Limburgs'' Dutch: ''Limburgs'' (:ˈlɪmbʏrxs), German: ''Limburgisch'' (:ˈlɪmbʊʁɡɪʃ), French: ''Limbourgeois'' (:lɛ̃buʁʒwa)), is a group of East Low Franconian language varieties spoken in the Limburg and Rhineland regions, along the 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 Tienen and back to Venlo. In some parts of this area it is generally used as the colloquial language in daily speech. It shares many characteristics both with German and Dutch and is often considered as a variant of one of these languages (see also ''Dachsprache''). Within the modern communities of the Belgian and Dutch provinces of Limburg, intermediate idiolects are also very common, which combine standard Dutch with the accent and some grammatical and pronunciation tendencies derived from Limburgish. This "Limburgish Dutch" is confusingly also often referred to simply as "Limburgish". == Etymology == The name ''Limburgish'' (and variants of it) derives only indirectly from the now Belgian town of Limbourg (''Laeboer'' in Limburgish, IPA: ), which was the capital of the Duchy of Limburg during the Middle Ages. More directly it is derived from the more modern name of the Province of Limburg (1815–39) in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which has been split today into a Belgian Limburg and a Dutch Limburg. In the area around the old Duchy of Limburg the main language today is French, but there is also a particular Limburgish (or Limburgish like, depending on definitions) language which is sometimes referred to as "Low Dietsch dialects". People from Limburg usually call their language ''Plat'', the same as Low German speakers do. This ''plat'' refers simply to the fact that the language is spoken in the low plains country, as opposed to the use of ''High'' in High German languages, which are derived from dialects spoken in the more mountainous southerly regions. The word can also be associated with ''platteland'' (Dutch: "countryside"). The general Dutch term for the language of ordinary people in former ages was ''Dietsch'' or ''Duutsch'', as it still exists in the term Low Dietsch (''Plattdütsch''). This term is originally derived from Proto-Germanic "þiudiskaz", meaning "of the people" (this word has also been preserved in the Italian word for German, which is "Tedesco", and the English word "Dutch"). In Dutch the word "plat" means "flat", but also refers to the way a language is spoken: "plat" means "slang" in that case. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Limburgish language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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