Sevenum


Sevenum is a town in the province Limburg in the southeastern Netherlands. Until 2010, it was also the name of the municipality comprising the towns of Sevenum, Kronenberg and Evertsoord.

Location

Sevenum's neighbour towns are : Blerick, Venlo, Maasbree, Kronenberg, Grubbenvorst, Hegelsom, Horst, Grubbenvorst.
Sevenum-town and Kronenberg are tangented by highway E34, provincial road N277, and the railroad track Eindhoven-Venlo; Evertsoord lies on the edge of the Peel, a former peatland.

Dialect

Sevenum's dialect, "Zaerums", is transitional between Limburgish, North-Limburgish, and Brabantian, which all have tentative borders within a larger dialect continuum. In the diagram "Kleverlandish" on this page, Sevenum is situated near the bottom-left corner of the blue area, which is the intersection of the horizontal "ich/ik" isogloss with the vertical "kalt/koud" isogloss.
The overview of town names in Limburgish at Streektaal.net lists "Zaerum" and "De Kroeënenberg", but it doesn't include "De Pieël", considering it to be in the North-Limburgish area.