Brabantian
Brabantian or Brabantic is a dialect of the Dutch language spoken in Noord-Brabant and in the Belgian provinces of Antwerpen and Vlaams-Brabant. In the Northwest of Brabant (Willemstad) Hollandic is spoken. Conventionally the Zuid-Gelders dialects are distinguished from Brabantian, though there are no objective criteria apart from geography to do this.
Brabantian is not recognized as a minority language in the Netherlands: as standard Dutch is partly based on Brabantian there's no need of a separate Brabantian standard.
About a third of the Dutch speaking population lives in the zone of the Brabantian dialect. In large Dutch towns such as Breda and Eindhoven, where many Hollanders live, Brabantian dialects are hardly spoken, whereas in rural areas many people do. Tilburg and 's-Hertogenbosch however have a large number of persons speaking the Brabantian dialect. In Belgium the dialects form the normal medium of spoken communication. Brabantian is however little spoken in Brussels - French having largely replaced Dutch in the middle of the 20th century - despite the fact that there are many cultural activities in Brussels using the dialect and that Brabantian enjoys a high status in Brussels.