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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font><br></font></p><div style="text-align:left">From: <span class="gI"><span name="Hellinckx Luc" class="gD">Hellinckx Luc</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Language varieties"</span><br>
<br>Beste Roger (and other Lowlanders),<br><br>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,<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><i>"The Making of a Language: The Case of the Idiom of Wilamowice, Southern Poland" by Tomasz Wicherkiewicz</i></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>See for yourself:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://books.google.be/books?id=LuPGek6L4gIC&printsec=frontcover&hl=nl" target="_blank">http://books.google.be/books?id=LuPGek6L4gIC&printsec=frontcover&hl=nl</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Kind greetings,</div><div><br></div><div>Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium</div><br><br>
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