Map illustrating the regression of dialects in the Netherlands

This map illustrates the virtual disappearance of the dialects in the Randstad area, and their recession in the regions around.

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The map is scanned from p. 171 in: Jan W. de Vries, Roland Willemyns, Peter Burger, Het Verhaal van een Taal, vijfde druk, 1995, Amsterdam, Prometheus, ISBN 90-5333-423-8, 316 pp.


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