Brabantian

Brabantian
a) Of or pertaining to the Brabantian language.

That is a Brabantian accent, and not a Limburgish one!

b) Of or pertaining to Brabant or its people.

The Brabantian calvinists emigrated en masse to Holland after the Sack of Antwerp in the 1580s.

2. noun
a) The language/dialect mainly spoken in North Brabant, Flemish Brabant and Antwerp provinces, Benelux.

He speaks Brabantian with his schoolmates, standard language with unfamiliar teachers and in the classroom.

b) A person from Brabant.

The Brabantians used to be known as rather reticent and stubborn, in stark contrast to their more open and louder Northern neighbors, i.e. the Dutch.


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