Stellingwarfs dialect

{{More citations needed|date=April 2022}}

{{short description|Westphalian dialect spoken in Friesland}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Stellingwarfs

|altname=Stellingwarfs, Stellingwerf, Stellingwerfs

|pronunciation=

|states=Netherlands

|region=Northeast, Stellingwerven region, Friesland province. Centers are Oosterwolde and Wolvega.

|speakers=5,000

|date=2016

|ref=e25

|nation= Netherlands

- Recognized by the government in 1996 as being part of Low Saxon [nds].

|familycolor=Indo-European

|fam2=Germanic

|fam3=West Germanic

|fam4=North Sea Germanic

|fam5=Low German

|fam6=Low Saxon

|fam7=Westphalian{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

|iso3=stl

|glotto=stel1238

|glottorefname=Stellingwerfs

}}

Stellingwarfs ({{langx|nl|Stellingwerfs}}) is a Westphalian{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} and Friso-Saxon{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} dialect spoken in Ooststellingwerf and Weststellingwerf in the Dutch province of Friesland, and also in Steenwijkerland and Westerveld in the Dutch province of Overijssel and Drenthe.

Like Het Bildt and Leeuwarden, Weststellingwerf and Ooststellingwerf are among the municipalities of Friesland where West Frisian is not spoken.

The language was identified by the government of the Netherlands in 1996 within Low Saxon.