LL-L "Language varieties" 2012.07.28 (02) [EN]

[Lowlands-L]

=====================================================
 L O W L A N D S - L - 28 July 2012 - Volume 02
lowlands.list at gmail.com - http://lowlands-l.net/
Posting: lowlands-l at listserv.linguistlist.org
Archive: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/lowlands-l.html
Encoding: Unicode (UTF-08)
Language Codes: lowlands-l.net/codes.php
=====================================================


From: Hellinckx Luc luc.hellinckx at gmail.com
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties"

Beste Roger (and other Lowlanders),

I posted an article from "Knack-magazine" about Wilamowice (the very name
refers to a Western origin < Willem) some 10 years ago on this list. In the
meantime, a book has been published on the language situation of this
village,

*"The Making of a Language: The Case of the Idiom of Wilamowice, Southern
Poland" by Tomasz Wicherkiewicz*


providing very convincing evidence to prove the Lowlandic origin of its
populace. Sure, layers and layers of (High-)German linguistic influence
have been superimposed on a Dutch substrate, but nonetheless the core is
not German, not even Middle German.

Numerous reasons are given in this book (amongst others, Flemish law,
Flemish units of area for the size of land), but most important for me is
the perception of the inhabitants themselves, they have always wanted to
trace back their origins to Flanders, Frisia and Scotland...and are also as
such regarded by their neighbours, not only by Poles but also by German
speakers in Bielsko-Biala who have never considered them as being of German
stock.

See for yourself:

http://books.google.be/books?id=LuPGek6L4gIC&printsec=frontcover&hl=nl

Kind greetings,

Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium


  =========================================================
Send posting submissions to lowlands-l at listserv.linguistlist.org.
Please display only the relevant parts of quotes in your replies.
Send commands (including "signoff lowlands-l") to
listserv at listserv.linguistlist.org or lowlands.list at gmail.com
http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html .
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/group.php?gid=118916521473498
============================== ============================
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/lowlands-l/attachments/20120728/9dfaf830/attachment.htm>