Kerkrade dialect
| Kerkrade dialect | |
|---|---|
| Kirchröadsj Plat | |
| Pronunciation |
[kɪʁçʁœətʃ plɑt] |
| Native to | Netherlands, Germany |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Kerkrade dialect (natively Kirchröadsj Plat or Kirchröadsj, literally 'Kerkradish', Standard Dutch: Kerkraads, Standard German: Kerkrader Platt) is a Ripuarian dialect spoken in Kerkrade (Netherlands) and Herzogenrath (Germany). It is spoken in all social classes, but the variety spoken by younger people is somewhat closer to Standard Dutch.
Even though it is a Ripuarian dialect, native speakers call it either Limburgish or the Kerkrade dialect but never Ripuarian, which is how they call related dialects spoken in Germany.
The Kerkrade dialect has many loanwords from Standard German, a language that used to be used in school and church. However, not all German loanwords are used by every speaker.
An example sentence in the Kerkrade dialect is Jód èse en drinke hilt lief en zieël tsezame, which means "eating and drinking well keeps one healthy". The Standard Dutch equivalent of that sentence is Goed eten en drinken houdt de mens gezond.
In contrast to Standard Dutch, but like other varieties of Ripuarian, the Kerkrade dialect was partially affected by the High German consonant shift. For instance, the former /t/ became an affricate /t͡s/ in word-initial and word-final positions, before historical /l/ and /r/ as well as when doubled. Thus, the word for "two" is twee in Standard Dutch, but tswai in the Kerkrade dialect.
As the neighbouring Limburgish dialects, the Kerkrade dialect features phonemic pitch accent, which contains two tonemes: stoottoon (denoted by a superscript ⟨¹⟩) and sleeptoon (denoted by superscript ⟨²⟩). There are minimal pairs, for example moer /muːʁ¹/ 'wall' - moer /muːʁ²/ 'carrot'. The syllables with stoottoon are pronounced shorter than those with the sleeptoon.
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