Venlo dialect

Venlo dialect (Dutch and Venloos) is the city dialect and a variant of Limburgish spoken in the Dutch city of Venlo alongside the Dutch language (with which it is not mutually intelligible). It belongs to a group of transitional dialects between Kleverlandish and East Limburgish spoken in the northern part of Netherlands Limburg. That group of dialects is also known by its Dutch name Mich-kwartier ("Mich area", based on the usage of mich instead of the Brabantian mij  as the accusative form of ik 'I').

Vowels

 * is restricted to unstressed syllables.
 * is near-close.
 * is the only "short open E" sound in the dialect. The phonetically open does not have a phonemic status.
 * are phonetically open but phonologically open-mid, the back counterparts of.
 * is somewhat 'laxer' than in Standard Dutch. As in most other dialects, it is the phonological long counterpart of.

Pitch accent
As many other Limburgish dialects, the Venlo dialect features a contrastive pitch accent, with minimal pairs such speule 'to rinse' vs. speule  'to play' and bein  'legs' vs. bein  'leg', with the first word in each pair featuring Accent 1 (left unmarked) and the second word Accent 2 (transcribed as a high tone).