Veluws
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- Language: Veluws
- Alternate names: Veluwe
- SIL-code: Ethnologue:vel
- Language family: Indo-European, Germanic, West, Low Saxon-Low Franconian, Low Saxon
- Number of speakers: ?
- Script: Latin
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Introduction
Veluws is a Dutch Low Saxon dialect which is spoken on the Veluwe.
The verb
The two main dialects -- West Veluws and East Veluws -- differ in the plural forms. While West Veluws uses the same endings as Dutch -en, East Veluws uses -t.
For example: in East Veluws they say ie warkt/wärkt (you are working) and in West Veluws jie warken/waarken (you are working).
Sample verb: loop'n 'to walk'
| Present | ||
| Sg.1 | ik | loop; lope |
| Sg.2 | jie | lopen |
| Sg.3 | hie;hij | loop; loopt |
| Pl.1 | wulie; wie | lopen |
| Pl.2 | zulie; zie; zee | |
| Pl.3 | julie; julien | |