East Brabantian is one of the main divisions of the
Brabantian dialect groups which the
Woordenboek van de Brabantse Dialecten recognizes. East Brabantian dialects are mainly spoken in the eastern part of the province of
North Brabant. In the classifications of Brabantian is recognized it as a separate dialect group. Sometimes it is called
Meierijs, after the
Bailiwick of
Den Bosch. East Brabant dialects are further subdivided into the
Kempenlands (in a large area east and south east of
Eindhoven, including
Arendonk and
Lommel in
Belgium), North
Meierijs (in an area south of
's-Hertogenbosch into
Eindhoven),
Peellands (in
Helmond and surroundings),
Geldrops and
Heeze-and-Leendes. The last two are small local dialects that are found as separate groups in few other classifications. Not to East Brabantian belong Maaslands (including
Bosch which is put among the Central North Brabantian, although other classification systems also describe it as East Brabantian), the Land-van-Cuijks (which has many similarities with neighboring
South Guelderish and the Northern
Limburgish dialects),
Kleverlands ( a
South Guelderish dialect) and
Budels (linguistically a
Limburgish dialect).