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"January" in European languages - Jakub Marian (jakubmarian.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Why on earth did they put the phonetic spelling of "januari" for northern Belgium?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Lmao Nothern Belgium.

For people wondering, this user's name is zout which is Dutch for salt. Now this could be a coincidence or the user might actually be Dutch speaking themselves, even Belgian perchance?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm Dutch, not Belgian. I was also referring to "jannewarie" as the phonetic spelling of "januari", which is placed over parts of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Looks like I made an unintentional joke!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah that's weird, it's the Limburgs version of January. But it's weird to include a local dialect instead of only primary languages. And if Limburgs is included, why not Frysk as well?

It's a weird map.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Jannewoore is also used phonetic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's the Netherlands, or I need more coffee.

It appears that there's not anything on Belgium actually, probably because the wallons use the french word and I assume the flemings use the dutch word

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Belgium has "jannewarie" for the Flemish part, and "djanvi" for the Wallon part (I could have been more clear on that). It seems this map mixes official language spellings with phonetic dialect spellings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think the dialect spellings are phonetic, at least not all of them. From my limited Corsican knowledge this looks the actual spelling and there's no way it would be pronounced like that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It could be Low German?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's the Netherlands