LL-L: "Administrativa" LOWLANDS-L, 07.JUN.2000 (01) [E]

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From: mathieu van woerkom [mathieuvanwoerkom at hotmail.com]
Subject: limburgisch

Dear LL's

>Should I add "Germany"?  Aren't there some dialects in Germany that are
>technically speaking Limburgish, and do the speakers of these considerthem
>Limburgish?

I do know that the inhabitants of Selfkant (Germany, close t the border at
Sittard) consider their dialect Limburgish. On the webside of this region it
says: "wir sind zweisprachig, Deutsch und Limburgisch (Niederlande)"
(www.selfkant.de) Also, the original dialect of Krefeld could be considered
Limburgsch.

I also would like to add a link for the Limburgisch-information-page:
  http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/mathieuvw/limburgs.html

Mathieu
mathieuvanwoerkom at hotmail.com

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From: Lowlands-L <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Administrativa

Thank you very much for the help (above), Mathieu.  On the basis of this
information I have added Germany as one of the places mentioned under
"Limburgs."  I am certainly happy to hear that people there are aware that
they are speaking Limburgish, considering that traditionally many have lumped
their dialects together with the Low Franconian and Low Saxon dialects of
Germany as "Low German."

Our LL-L homepage now has links to three more versions of our welcome.  With
the kind help of Henk Wolf and Reuben Epp I have added versions in Saterland
East Frisian and Mennonite Low Saxon/Low German (Plautdietsch) respectively.
Big, whopping thank-yous go to Henk and Reuben.  There is already a link to a
Limburgish version, but I am still waiting for Roger's final version of the
text.  (No pressure though, Roger!)

Thanks also for the link to your page with the useful language map, Mathieu.
It'll be one of the first to go onto our Limburgish links list.  Further tips
will be welcome.

Best regards,

Reinhard/Ron

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