Brabantian

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to Brabant or its people.
 * The Brabantian Calvinists emigrated en masse to Holland after the Sack of Antwerp in the 1580s.
 * 1) Of or pertaining to the Brabantian language.
 * That is a Brabantian accent, not a Limburgish one!
 * That is a Brabantian accent, not a Limburgish one!

Translations

 * Catalan: brabantí, brabançó
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: brabanta
 * Finnish: brabantilainen
 * French:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: brabantino, brabanção, brabante
 * Swedish: brabantisk

Proper noun

 * 1) The language or dialect mainly spoken in North Brabant (the Netherlands), Antwerp and Flemish Brabant provinces (Belgium).
 * He speaks Brabantian with his schoolmates, and Belgian Standard Dutch in the classroom and with unfamiliar teachers in the playground, a classic example of diglossia.
 * He speaks Brabantian with his schoolmates, and Belgian Standard Dutch in the classroom and with unfamiliar teachers in the playground, a classic example of diglossia.

Noun

 * 1) A person from the respective provinces or historic region of Brabant (especially if Brabantian-speaking).
 * The Brabantians used to be known as rather reticent and stubborn, in contrast to their more open and louder Northern neighbors, i.e. the Dutch.

Usage notes

 * Nowadays the demonym mostly applies to people from the eponymous provinces.

Translations

 * Catalan: brabançó, brabançona
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: brabantano
 * French: ,
 * Portuguese: brabantino