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Provinces vs Brabantian - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between provinces and brabantian

is that provinces is while brabantian is a person from the respective provinces or historic region (esp if brabantian-spoken) of brabant.

As an adjective brabantian is

of or pertaining to the brabantian language.

As a proper noun brabantian is

the language/dialect mainly spoken in north brabant (holland), antwerp and flemish brabant provinces, (belgium).

provinces

English

Noun

(head)
  • The part of a country outside of the capital, major cities, etc., and regarded as being rustic or parochial; a hinterland. See provincial.
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    brabantian

    English

    (wikipedia Brabantian)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to the Brabantian language.
    • That is a Brabantian accent, and ''not'' a Limburgish one!
  • Of or pertaining to Brabant or its people.
    • The Brabantian calvinists emigrated ''en masse'' to Holland after the ''Sack of Antwerp'' in the 1580s.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The language/dialect mainly spoken in North Brabant (Holland), Antwerp and Flemish Brabant provinces, (Belgium).
    • He speaks Brabantian with his schoolmates, and the standard language in the classroom and with unfamiliar teachers at the playground, a classic example of diglossia.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person from the respective provinces or historic region (esp. if Brabantian-spoken) of Brabant.
    • The Brabantians used to be known as rather reticent and stubborn, in contrast to their more open and louder Northern neighbors, the Dutch.

    Usage notes

    * The name of the language, Brabantian , when it means "the Brabantian language", does not assume an article. * Nowadays the demonym mostly applies to people from the eponymous provinces.