Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Edits on Dutch pronounciation/reply

Dutch is not a pluricentric language at all. There is only one standard, the one regulated by Taalunie, and it only regulates spelling, not pronunciation. There is no standard for pronunciation at all.

What is standard, though, is the common phonemic system of the majority of more-or-less mainstream varieties of Dutch. That means, specifically, that regardless of where you go, the language has the same set of phonemes, even if they are pronounced differently in different areas. See Dutch phonology for more details. Many Wiktionary entries currently give the different regional pronunciations as phonemes (with / /) as if the phonemic system is somehow different between Belgian and Netherlandic. But it's not of course, /ç/ and /x/ are really the same thing, so we should not write them differently if we are writing the phonemes, which concern only the underlying structure of the word (that is, which distinguishing sound-pieces is it made of).