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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.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

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

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