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Hamont-Achel dialect (Dutch: Hamonts-Achels, Limburgish: Haëmets-Achels) or Hamont-Achel Limburgish is the city dialect and variant of Limburgish spoken in the Belgian city of Hamont-Achel alongside the Dutch language (with which it is not mutually intelligible).[1][2]

Hamont-Achel dialect
Haëmets-Achels
Haëmets
Achels
Pronunciation[ˌɦæːmətsˈʔɑxəls][tone?]
[ˈɦæːməts][tone?]
[ˈɑxəls][tone?]
Native toBelgium
RegionHamont-Achel
Language family
Indo-European
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone

Native speakers of the dialect tend to call it either Haëmets or Achels, depending on where they are from (the former city of Hamont or the former village of Achel).


Phonology


The following section describes the dialect as it is spoken in Hamont.[3]


Consonants


Consonant phonemes[1]
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
Nasal m m n n ŋ ng
Plosive voiceless p p t t k k
voiced b b d d
Fricative voiceless f f s s ʃ sj x ch
voiced v v z z ʒ zj ɣ g ɦ h
Liquid l l ʀ r
Approximant β w j j

Vowels


The Hamont-Achel dialect contains 22 monophthong and 13 diphthong phonemes. The amount of monophthongs is higher than that of consonants.[6]


Monophthongs

Short monophthongs of the Hamont-Achel dialect on a vowel chart, from Verhoeven (2007:223)
Short monophthongs of the Hamont-Achel dialect on a vowel chart, from Verhoeven (2007:223)
Long monophthongs of the Hamont-Achel dialect on a vowel chart, from Verhoeven (2007:223)
Long monophthongs of the Hamont-Achel dialect on a vowel chart, from Verhoeven (2007:223)
Monophthong phonemes[7]
Front Central Back
unrounded rounded
short long short long short long short long
Close i ie y uu u oe
Close-mid ɪ i ee ø u øː eu ə e oo
Open-mid ɛ e ɛː èè œ ö œː äö ɔ o ɔː ao
Open æ è æː ae aa ɑ a ɑː â

On average, long vowels are 95 ms longer than short vowels. This is very similar to Belgian Standard Dutch, in which the difference is 105 ms.[4][8]

The quality of the monophthongs is as follows:


Monophthong-glide combinations

Unlike in the neighboring dialect of Weert, all monophthong-glide combinations are restricted to the syllable coda. Those are mostly /j/ preceded by a vowel, and they are /uj, uːj, eːj, oːj, ɔj, ɔːj, æːj/ and the marginal /ɑj/. There also are two combinations of a vowel followed by /β/, which are /iβ/ and /œβ/.[13]


Diphthongs

Dialect of Hamont-Achel contrasts long and short closing diphthongs. The long ones are on average 70 ms longer than their short equivalents. Centering diphthongs are all long.[6]

Closing diphthongs of the Hamont-Achel dialect, from Verhoeven (2007:221)
Closing diphthongs of the Hamont-Achel dialect, from Verhoeven (2007:221)
Centering diphthongs of the Hamont-Achel dialect, from Verhoeven (2007:221)
Centering diphthongs of the Hamont-Achel dialect, from Verhoeven (2007:221)
Diphthong phonemes[12]
Closing short ɛi ei/ij œy ui ɔu ou ɑu aw
long ɛiː êi/îj œyː ûi ɔuː ôu ɑuː âw
Centering iːə ieë yːə uuë uːə oeë oːə oa ɔːə aoë

Prosody


Like most other Limburgish dialects, but unlike some other dialects in this area,[14][15] the prosody of the Hamont-Achel dialect has a lexical tone distinction, which is traditionally referred to as stoottoon ('push tone') or Accent 1, which generally has a shortening effect on the syllable and sleeptoon ('dragging tone') or Accent 2. As in other articles, the latter is transcribed as a high tone, whereas the former is not marked. The difference between Accent 1 and Accent 2 can signal either lexical differences or grammatical distinctions, such as those between the singular and the plural forms of some nouns. It is phonemic only in stressed syllables, an example of a minimal pair is hoes /ˈɦus/ '(record) sleeve' vs. hoes /ˈɦus˦/ 'house'.[16]


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