These exceptions are previously separate villages and/or municipalities that have merged with the municipality of Maastricht namely Amby, Borgharen, Heer and Itteren.
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This is not only because of geographic closeness of a Francophone region (namely Wallonia) to Maastricht but also because of French being the predominant spoken language of the Maastrichtian cultural elite and the higher secondary educational system of the region in the past.
Maastrichtian | Minjiang dialect | Kansai dialect | Samogitian dialect | Doric dialect | Cypriot dialect | Norfolk dialect | Geordie dialect words | Doric dialect (Scotland) | Lancashire dialect and accent | Balearic dialect | balearic dialect | Yooper dialect | ''Wenn der Rapp bleht in Piddaschwald'', a poem in the dialect of Peterswald-Löffelscheid | Upper Navarrese dialect | Upper Carniolan dialect | Styrian dialect group | Romanesco dialect | Pothohari dialect | Pomeranian (German dialect group) | Pemako Tshangla dialect | Old Guangde dialect | Ohrid dialect | Northern Khmer dialect | Negombo Tamil dialect | Multani dialect | Manchester dialect | Lower Polog dialect | Kata-vari dialect | Iron (dialect) |