Sallaans (Dutch: Sallands) is a collective term for the Westphalian dialects of the region Salland, in the eastern Netherlands. A common term used by native speakers for their dialect, which is also used by Low Saxon speakers from other regions for their respective dialects, is plat or simply dialect. Yet another common usage is to refer to the language by the name of the local variety, where for instance Dal(f)sens would be the name for the Sallaans variety spoken in the village of Dalfsen. Sallands is more influenced by the Hollandic dialects than Twents or Achterhoeks. This influence is known as the Hollandse expansie. For example, the word 'house' (Standard Dutch huis [ɦœys]) is hoes [ɦuːs] in Twents but huus [ɦyːs] in Sallaans. The Hollandic dialects of the 17th century still had not diphthongized [yː] to [œy], and due to their prestigious status they triggered the shift from [uː] to [yː].^[1][2][3]

Phonology

Consonants

• [ɡ] appears only as an allophone of /k/ before voiced consonants.^[5]
• /ʋ/ occurring before and after back-rounded vowels is pronounced as a labio-velar approximant [w].
• After long close and close-mid vowels, /r/ surfaces as a diphthongization of the vowel, as in zoer [ˈzuːə̯]. This also happens in compounds: veurkämer [vøːə̯kæːmər].^{[stress needed]} It is also often dropped preconsonantally after /ə/.^[6]

Vowels

• Unlike in Standard Dutch, the long close-mid monophthongs /eː, øː, oː/ are actual monophthongs and not narrow closing diphthongs [ei, øy, ou]. They do not appear before /r/ whenever that consonant occurs before a vowel or at the end of a word, where the open-mid series /ɛː, œː, ɔː/ occurs instead.^[8]

• /œy/ is realized as [œi] before vowels and in the word-final position.^[10]

Some examples

Present tense

Past tense

Plurals and diminutives