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From: "Ingmar Roerdinkholder" <ingmar.roerdinkholder at worldonline.nl>
Subject: LL-L "Resources" 2008.03.22 (05) [E]

I guess you mean Dinxperlo (Dingsper) (NL) + Süderwick (D) and Kerkrade
(Kirchraoi) (NL) + Herzogenrath (D).

The national languages Dutch and German play a big role in school, church,
media and other official organisations, of course.
But there is no linguistic border among the inhabitants, because in
Dinxperlo and Süderwick the same Low Saxon dialect (with many influences
of Cleves Low Franconian), and in Kerkrade and Herzogenrath the same
Limburgish dialect (with many Ripuarian influences) is spoken.
From my own experience, when I lived in Winterswijk, at the Germano-Dutch
border, not far from Dinxperlo, that people living in both countries in
that area often know and use Low Saxon, German and Dutch. All of those
languages can be used for communication, along with English among younger
people. Btw I noticed Low Saxon speakers of Germany often consider
Standard Dutch as some variety of there own language.

Ingmar

Heiko schreef:

Several years ago I read a newspaper article about a small village on the
Dutch-German border where one side of the main road belongs to Germany and
the other side of the road belongs to the Netherlands.

I have also read about another village that is split by the Dutch-German
border, where one of the buildings on the maind road is on the border.

I have tried to find these two places, but without success, neither in the
Wikipedia nor via Google earth. Does anyone have an idea where these
villages
are and what life is like in such a place on the linguistic border?

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From: orville crane <manbythewater at hotmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Resources" 2008.03.22 (05) [E]

Heiko,
I think such a situation exists in Limburg, NL.
Tom
Mann beim Wasser
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