thumbnail|Hollandic (roughly the Western half of the pink area) within the [[Low Franconian languages|Low Franconian-speaking area in Belgium, the Netherlands and France]]
Hollandic or Hollandish ( ) is the most widely spoken dialect of the Dutch language. Hollandic is among the Central Dutch dialects. Other important language varieties of spoken Low Franconian languages are Brabantian, Flemish (East Flemish, West Flemish), Zeelandic, Limburgish, Surinamese Dutch and Afrikaans.
History
Originally in the later County of Holland, Old Frisian or a related Ingvaeonic dialect was spoken. There is no evidence for the theory that migrating Low Franconian settlers were responsible for the change to Old Dutch in the 12th and 13th centuries. Instead, long-term language contact between Frisian speakers and Frankish speakers before the 12th century could have led to a Hollandic dialect that was partly Low Franconian and partly influenced by Frisian. The closest cluster to this cluster is that formed by Westerkwartier and Stellingwerf.
- Hollandic, Zeelandic and West-Veluws can be grouped as Centraal westelijke dialecten.
- Among those, not only Hollandic borders to Centraal zuidelijke dialecten, which encompasses Brabantic and parts of Northern Dutch Limburg and Northern Belgium Limburg.
- The group, but not Hollandic, borders to non-Groningian Low Saxon and Flemish dialects
- The dialect of Urk is closest to the group.
- The clusters grouping with the group including Hollandic are:
Zuidwest-Limburg and Centraal zuidelijke dialecten as well as Tienen