Hasselt dialect

Hasselt dialect or Hasselt Limburgish (natively "Essels" or "Hessels", Standard Dutch: "Hasselts" ) is the city dialect and variant of Limburgish spoken in the Belgian city of Hasselt alongside the Dutch language. All of its speakers are bilingual with standard Dutch.
Phonology.
Consonants.
Realization of.
According to , is realized as a voiced trill, either uvular or alveolar . Between vowels, it is sometimes realized with one contact (i.e. as a tap) , whereas word-finally, it can be devoiced to .
According to , about two thirds of speakers have a uvular , whereas about one third has a categorical alveolar . There are also a few speakers who mix uvular and alveolar articulations.
Among uvular articulations, he lists uvular trill , uvular fricative trill , uvular fricative and uvular approximant , which are used more or less equally often in all contexts. Almost all speakers with a uvular use all four of these realizations.
Among alveolar articulations, he lists alveolar tap , voiced alveolar fricative , alveolar approximant , voiceless alveolar trill , alveolar tapped or trilled fricative , voiceless alveolar tap and voiceless alveolar fricative . Among these, the tap is most common, whereas the tapped/trilled fricative is the second most common realization.
Elsewhere in the article, the consonant is transcribed for the sake of simplicity and for the sake of consistency with IPA transcriptions of other dialects of Limburgish.
Vowels.
There are also the sequences , which are better analyzed as sequences of and the approximant , rather than diphthongs . The sequences occur only word-finally.
Sample.
The sample text is a reading of the first sentence of The North Wind and the Sun.
Orthographic version.
De naorderwend en de zon weuren an tisketère ever wië von in twae het stèrkste weur.