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Werner H. Veith: Kleiner niederländischer Sprachatlas (KNSA)

The "Concise Linguistic Atlas of Dutch" (KNSA) project is a logical follow-on to the "Concise Linguistic Atlas of German". The network of localities surveyed in the KNSA forms a continuation westwards of that of the KDSA. In both atlases, the material basis consists of forty of G. Wenker’s sample sentences translated into local dialect and both use a similar computerized method to create their maps. The first KNSA maps delineate the divisions within the Dutch dialect area and its boundary to West Frisian. Frequency analyses supported by diagrams illustrate the varying strengths of different dialect constituents in Standard Dutch.