North Veluws
Categories: Languages of the Netherlands
North Veluws is a Low Saxon dialect from the Dutch province of Gelderland. This dialect is spoken in different villages in the Veluwe: Nunspeet, Hulshorst, Vierhouten, Elspeet, Putten, Ermelo (Armel), Uddel, Nijkerk (Niekaark), Harderwijk (Harderwiek), Scherpenzeel ens.
Veluws is usually spoken by elderly people and sometimes younger people as well but already with a more Dutch influence in their language. Veluws is a commonly accepted Dutch dialect because most people can understand it reasonably well. Momentarilly a regional dictionary is constructed and will most likely be finished end this year.
Veluws is language which hangs between Dutch and Low Saxon but is viewed upon as Low Saxon. Words like: look (onion), zund (shame), laand (land), he'j (do you have), hen (have), bin (are), waarken (work), zeunig (crib), schik (fun), vretten (food) are very well know and especially mien jong (m'jong) (my boy/son) and words like tied (time) and ies (ice) are used by many people in The Netherlands.
Grammar
Ik bin
Jy bin
Hy is
Wulie/wy bin
Julie/jy bin
Sulie/sy bin
Past tense
Ik was
Jy was
Hy was
Wulie/wy weurn
Julie/jy weurn
Sulie/sy weurn