Zeelandic

Zeelandic
Zeêuws
Native to	Zeeland (Netherlands)
Native speakers	(undated figure of 220,000)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Istvaeonic Low Franconian Dutch Zeelandic
Early forms	Frankish Old Dutch Middle Dutch Modern Dutch
Writing system	Zeelandic alphabet (Latin)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zea
Glottolog	zeeu1238
Linguasphere	52-ACB-af
Distribution of Zeelandic (blue) within the Dutch language area (grey)
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Zeelandic (Zeeuws: Zeêuws; Dutch: Zeeuws; West Flemish: Zêeuws) is a group of language varieties spoken in the southwestern parts of the Netherlands. It is currently considered a Low Franconian dialect of Dutch, but there have been movements to promote the status of Zeelandic from a dialect of Dutch to a separate regional language, which have been denied by the Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs.^[2] More specifically, it is spoken in the southernmost part of South Holland (Goeree-Overflakkee) and large parts of the province of Zeeland, with the notable exception of eastern Zeelandic Flanders.^[3]

It has notable differences from Standard Dutch mainly in pronunciation but also in grammar and vocabulary, which separates it clearly from Standard Dutch. This makes mutual intelligibility with speakers of Standard Dutch difficult.