LL-L "Language loyalty" 2004.01.06 (04) [E]

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From: denis dujardin <dujardin at pandora.be>
Subject: LL-L "Language loyalty" 2005.01.05 (02) [E]

Hi Marco,

It remains quite strange that even Hugo Ryckeboer mentions in his last
book about French-Flanders that a testimony from 1886 told us, that there
wasn't anymore Flemish was spoken at Dunkirk at that time. Even Willem
Pee, who did his dialect investigation from village to village (-on his
motorcycle, it was told-) during the 1930th years, dwelled all over the
town and desperately had to stop his quest for finding at least ONE native
Dunkirk speaker. Of course in Groot-Sinten and Klein-Sinten, as well as in
Rosendaal and Leffrinckhoucke (next to Dunkirk), one might even find some
rare remnant speakers up to day. But Malo and Saint-Pol are Picard for
decades. Mardyck has been Picard much longer because it was and
fishermans-village where Picard people had immigrated ages ago. There were
stories that told that those were even very suspicious about the Flemish
which surrounded them. In French-Flanders by the way, they call them
Mèèrdikkenoars.

Best Greetings,

Denis Dujardin
Flanders

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