Thread:User talk:Rua/Limburgish/reply (4)

No problem :) As always, there is no clear rule when it concerns cases like this. Limburgish of course belongs to the Dutch sprachraum and as such could be considered Middle Dutch. Linguistically, it is more blurry. Limburgish (with the notable exception of Maastrichts) clearly exhibits a-umlaut in keeping pairs like "hae vloog" vs. "hae is gevlaoge", which can only be explained as having come before all unstressed "a"s became schwa. (unfortunately I do not have the literature at hand currently) Even though I think direct Old Dutch is linguistically a better grouping, I am not bothered with the grouping under Middle Dutch. However, consistency is very important, and as such, it should be indicated somewhere. --Ooswesthoesbes (talk) 13:32, 10 November 2017 (UTC)