Editing Gronings dialect (section)

== Origin ==
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The Gronings dialects are a kind of mix between two languages: [[Old Frisian]]
([[Saterland Frisian language|East Frisian]]) and Middle Low German. East Frisian was spoken in the ''[[Ommelanden]]'' (surrounding lands of the city of [[Groningen]]), while the city, the surrounding rural area called {{ill|Gorecht|nds-nl|Gerecht (streek)}} and the eastern lordship of [[Westerwolde (region)|Westerwolde]] were Low Saxon. When the city of Groningen developed an important position in the Ommelanden, a switch from East Frisian to Saxon occurred, although it was not a complete switch because there are many East Frisian influences in the "new" Groningen language. Many East Frisian words and grammatic features are still in use today. In less than one century, the same process also started in [[East Frisia]], from the city of Emden, which was influenced by the [[Hanseatic League]]. This explains the strong relation between both varieties.

In the second half of the 16th century Gronings started to evolve towards [[Middle Dutch]] because of the strong influence of the new standard language. But because of the political, geographical and cultural isolation of Groningen, a strong provincialism in the first half of the 19th century caused Gronings to develop itself in a significant way. The sounds that are used today were formed in this period.