Taoltje in de buurt: een degske offe ut Klèffelaonds

Friday May 23, 2025 – Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University

Cleverlandish, also known as Kleverlands in Dutch, is a dialect continuum within the Low-Franconian speaking area. Its geographical extension goes beyond national borders, as it stretches westwards in the Netherlands, particularly the easternmost parts of South Gelderland and Brabant, and the northernmost part of Limburg; and eastwards all the way to the city of Duisburg in North Rhine Westphalia. Some language varieties, especially the city dialect of Nijmegen, Nimweegs, but also Gruusbeeks, Ernems, Gendts, Millings, Genneps, Cuijks, Kleefs, Xantens, Düsbergsch, have all sparked peoples’ interest, both within and outside academia. Time has come to bring all these insights together and convene to celebrate and disentangle this diversity.

We invite everyone interested in Kleverlandic ‘languoids’ to join us during this one-day conference! Proposals for presentation in the field of language description, sociolinguistics, dialectology, language contact studies, heritage languages, language obsolescence studies, as well as the promotion of local publications, such as dictionaries, language primers, or literary translations can be submitted until April 6 to luismiguel.rojasberscia@ru.nl or janine.berns@ru.nl. Please put KleverlandsConference_Lastname1&Lastname2 in the subject line of your e-mail. Abstract should not be longer than 200 words (without references). Notifications of acceptance will be sent in the second week of April.