^By a socio-political criterion, Dutch dialects are the dialects that are both cognate with Dutch and are spoken in the same language area as the Dutch standard language. See Donaldson B. A linguistic history of Holland and Belgium. Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden 1983. p. 11 and Goossens, J. Inleiding tot de Nederlandse Dialectologie. Michiels, Tongeren 1972. pp. 11-30.