1. Brabantian - Noun
2. Brabantian - Adjective
3. Brabantian - Proper noun
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.
Tilburg and 's-Hertogenbosch have a large number of people speaking the Brabantian dialect. Source: Internet
Church attendance is even lower in the west with only 1 percent of the West Brabantian population visiting churches. Source: Internet
In 2006 slightly more than half of the Brabantian people identified with Catholism. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
It can be divided in two main dialects: East Brabantian and West BrabantianSUBST. Source: Internet
The default language being developed around this time had therefore mainly Brabantian influences. Source: Internet