Bildt language
Sign in to saveAlso known as Bildts
thumb|left|A woman speaking Bildts recorded in the Netherlands.
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Netherlands
- Image
- Taalsituatie Noord-Nederland.png
Show 3 more facts
- indigenous to
- het Bildt
- writing system
- Latin script
- Commons category
- Bildts
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
1 sectionsContents
- References
thumb|left|A woman speaking Bildts recorded in the Netherlands.
Bildts () is a conservative Hollandic dialect spoken in the largest part of the former municipality het Bildt in the Dutch province of Friesland. The dialect retains features from around 1505, when the area was reclaimed from the sea as ordered by George, Duke of Saxony. In order to achieve this task, workers from Holland, Zeeland, and Brabant moved to Friesland. The apparent similarity to present-day Frisian is due to the evolution of Frisian from the sixteenth century into the present.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bildt language” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Available in 9 languages
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0