Meanings
- A dialect group of Low Franconian that shows certain High German characteristics, especially traces of the shift k → ch in function words and the split of Proto-Germanic *au into two phonemes (ō~ū before alveolars and au~ou otherwise).
South Low Franconian: Selfkant b. [Do you have many children?] Neə, ech hanər mar en. no I have-ER(E) only one 'No, I have only one.' (RhWb)
2013, Thomas Strobel, Chapter Seventeen: On the Spatial Structure of the Syntactic Variable "Pronomial Partitivity" in German Dialects, in: Ernestina Carrilho, Catarina Magro, Xosé Álvarez (eds.), Current Approaches to Limits and Areas in Dialectology, p. 399ff., here p. 418 (in Chaper Seventeen)1 more example
For example, the ik/ich line runs further north and west than the maken/machen line from the Lower Rhine of Germany into Belgium, creating a major division within Low Franconian: the dialects with unshifted /k/ are classified as North Low Franconian while those with shifted /k/ are classified South Low Franconian.
2020, Michael T. Putnam, B. Richard Page (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics, e-book
- in, of or relating to South Low Franconian
A tonal reorganisation that was motivated by late peak timing may also have taken place in the South Low Franconian dialects in the Dutch and Belgian provinces of Limburg, which have a lexical tone distinction similar to the older dialect of Cologne (cf. section 3.3.).
2009, Jörg Peters, Tonal variation in West Germanic languages, in: Thomas Stolz, Esther Ruigendijk, Jürgen Trabant (eds.), Linguistik im Nordwesten: Beiträge zum 1. Nordwestdeutschen Linguistischen Kolloquium, Bremen, 10.-11. Oktober 2008 (Diversitas Linguarum, vol. 26), Universitätsverlag Dr. N. Brockmeyer : Bochum, p. 79ff., here p. 991 more example
A tone accent distinction, commonly referred to as the distinction between Accent 1 and Accent 2, is found in Central Franconian and South Low Franconian dialects spoken in Central West Germany, in the Dutch province of Limburg, and in the Belgian provinces of Limburg and Liège (e.g. Schmidt 1986; Gussenhoven 2004; Werth 2011; Hermans 2013).
2020, Tomas Riad, Jörg Peters, Northwestern Europe, in: Carlos Gussenhoven, Aoju Chen (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody, Oxford University Press, p. 271ff., here p. 282 (section 18.3.4 Tone accents)
Translations
Dutch Zuidnederfrankisch, zuidnederfrankisch
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German Südniederfränkisch, südniederfränkisch
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Cite this entry
South Low Franconian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/South%20Low%20Franconian
“South Low Franconian.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/South%20Low%20Franconian. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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