LL-L: "Language policies" LOWLANDS-L, 09.NOV.2000 (01) [E]

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From: Lone Elisabeth Olesen [baxichedda at yahoo.com]
Subject: "Language policies"

Hello all -

"Marco Evenhuis" <evenhuis at zeelandnet.nl> wrote:

> I don't know whether you find the text below
> interesting for the discussion
> list, but feel free to use it if you like. It's the
> reaction (in Dutch
> only) of the Nederlandse Taalunie on the efforts of
> the Dutch province of Zeeland
> to get Zeeuws/Zeelandic recognised just as
> Limburgish and Nedersaksisch are
> recognised as regional languages.

I think this was interesting to read, a bit scary
though - apart from the laws and the medieval
documents they are referring to, how do they "know" so
surely what "is" a dialect and what "is" a regional
language??

Greetings, Lone E. Olesen

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