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Maintenance and loss of a regional language: Recent low German developments
Titel:
Maintenance and loss of a regional language: Recent low German developments
Auteur:
Kremer, Ludger
Verschenen in:
Language culture and curriculum
Paginering:
Jaargang 10 (1997) nr. 2 pagina's 113-124
Jaar:
1997
Inhoud:
Low German is one of those languages in Europe that are in imminent danger of being given up by their native speakers. The projects reported here were carried out in Western Westfalia and Emsland, regions generally known as conservative with respect to language maintenance and language change. For these areas the long co-existence of High and Low German could be described as a stable diglossia until the outbreak of World War II. Since then a decline of active Low German speakers has taken place which amounts to some 30% per generation. This has negative consequences for this endangered regional language: although its degree of Ausbau has reached a remarkable level during the last two or three decades (a growing literary production, use in religious services, television, and radio programmes including news and talk shows, modern pop music, etc.), and although Low German is going to be placed on the Charter of Regional or Minority Languages of the Council of Europe, this impressive cultural expansion, and improvement of status, is threatened to collapse in the near future because of the decline in the number of speakers of Low German we are witnessing at present.
Uitgever:
Routledge
Bronbestand:
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
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