Drents

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A language of Netherlands

ISO 639-3
drt
Alternate Names
Dreins, Dreints, Drente, Drenthe
Autonym
Drèents
User Population

255,000 (Herweijer and Jans 2009).

Location

Drenthe province: near German border; Overijssel province: Steenwijkerland municipality.

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Language Status

5* (Developing).

Classification
Indo-European, Germanic, West, Low Saxon-Low Franconian, Low Saxon
Dialects

North Drente (Noord-Drents), South Drente (Zuid-Drents).

Language Use

Also use Dutch [nld].

Language Development

Dictionary. Bible portions: 1981.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Drents
Writing

Latin script [Latn], standardized in 1983.

Other Comments

Identified by the government as variant of Low Saxon [nds] (1996).