Brabantian
Speech parts
1. Brabantian - Noun
2. Brabantian - Adjective
3. Brabantian - Proper noun
Meaning
Of or pertaining to Brabant or its people.
The Brabantian Calvinists emigrated en masse to Holland after the Sack of Antwerp in the 1580s.
Synonym: Brabantine
Of or pertaining to the Brabantian language.
That is a Brabantian accent, not a Limburgish one!
Brabantian
The language or dialect mainly spoken in North Brabant (the Netherlands), Antwerp and Flemish Brabant provinces (Belgium).
Synonyms: Brabantish, Brabantic
He speaks Brabantian with his schoolmates, and Belgian Standard Dutch in the classroom and with unfamiliar teachers in the playground, a classic example of diglossia.
Brabantian (plural Brabantians)
A person from the respective provinces or historic region of Brabant (especially if Brabantian-speaking).
The Brabantians used to be known as rather reticent and stubborn, in contrast to their more open and louder Northern neighbors, i.e. the Dutch.
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Examples
Tilburg and 's-Hertogenbosch have a large number of people speaking the Brabantian dialect.
Church attendance is even lower in the west with only 1 percent of the West Brabantian population visiting churches.
In 2006 slightly more than half of the Brabantian people identified with Catholism.
In English, one may refer to Brabant by the adjectives Brabantine or Brabantian, but only the latter term is (nearly) as general as French "Brabançon", which can also be a substantive for e.g. the dialect, a man, or a horse or its breed from Brabant.
It can be divided in two main dialects: East Brabantian and West BrabantianSUBST.
The default language being developed around this time had therefore mainly Brabantian influences.