LL-L: "Standardization" LOWLANDS-L, 24.AUG.2000 (01) [E]

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From: Roger Thijs [roger.thijs at village.uunet.be]
Subject: Standardization was Re: LL-L: "Language politics"

At 13:10 23-8-2000 -0700, you wrote:
From: Roger Thijs [roger.thijs at village.uunet.be]
Subject: Language politics
 >>>>> 4. Some url's about the politics regarding a unified spelling of
romance
languages in Belgium and in the North of France:
Spelling considerations for the development of a common walloon dictionnary

(in French)
http://www.walon.open.net.ma/hendschel-3.html
An introduction in English to the walloon language:
http://www.wallonie.com/wallang/index.htm
walloon orthography
http://users.skynet.be/croejhete/2Ortho2.html
Some considerations about the spelling of Picard
http://www.multimania.com/languepicarde/orthogra1.htm   <<<<<<

In my previous message i did not include the url:
http://www.walon.open.net.ma/hendschel_on_walon.html
since I couldn't reach it yesterday.
Today the url works.
It's in French, about walloon, but it outlines a policy for an "unification

in diversity", and I think this is an issue for most regional languages.

Regards,
Roger
r.thijs at ieee.org

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