LL-L "Language survival" 2003.07.01 (02) [E]

Wed Jul 2 03:19:30 UTC 2003

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From: "Mike" <botas at club-internet.fr>
Subject: Language survival

Dear Lowlanders,
Although not a LL language, the tiny
Sorbian language community tucked away
into a corner of Eastern Germany should
be close to the hearts of all lowlanders.
The alarming message I received and
am reproducing below speaks for itself.
There goes another facette of pluralistic
Europe...
Please join in sending messages to the
e-mail addresses given below
(of SaxonyÂ´s prime minister and his
minister for cultural affairs)
NB This "Saxony" has (almost) nothing
to do with our Lower Saxon LL language.
Ron has put a fascinating treatise on the
subject on the LL website.
(Ron, maybe you want to give the address,
I donÂ´t have it at my fingertips.)

Quote:

> Endangered minority pleas fall on government's deaf ears.
>
> SORBIAN SCHOOL IN CROSTWITZ WILL BE DEFINITELY SHUT DOWN!
>
> Crostwitz/Germany. The Saxon ministry of culture informed yesterday via
fax
> the municipality in Crostwitz that the local Sorbian middle school will be
> definitely shut down with new 2003/2004 school year. Students and parents
> received the decision with a great dismay. The municipality wants to
> negotiate a one year extension on the decision. "We are trying to meet
with
> the ministry in Dresden", said Macij Brycka, the mayor of Crostwitz.
> Parents
> though are forced to choose right now which middle school will their
> children attend to in new school year.
>
> Jan Nuk, the president of Sorbian umbrella organization "Domowina" in an
> interview said: "This is a national tragedy for us. I will support anybody
> who will file a law-suit against this injustice."
>
> "Serbske Nowiny"(Sorbian News) 27.06.2003
>
> Letters of Protest can be addressed in all languages to:
>
> THE PREMIER OF SAXONY
>
> MinisterprÃ¤sident Prof. Dr. Georg Milbradt
>
> ArchivstraÃŸe 1
> 01097 Dresden
> Germany
>
> Telefon: (03 51) 5 64-0
> Telefax: (03 51) 5 64-1309
> E-Mail: ministerpraesident at dd.sk.sachsen.de or info at georg-milbradt.de
>
> THE MINISTER OF CULTURE
>
> SÃ¤chsisches Staatsministerium fÃ¼r Kultus
> Prof. Dr. Karl Mannsfeld
>
> Carolaplatz 1
> 01097 Dresden
> Germany
>
> Telefon: (03 51) 5 64-0
> Telefax: (03 51) 5 64-2886
> E-Mail: info at smk.sachsen.de
>
> Email subject should be: "Crostwitz school/Schule Crostwitz"
>
> Additional info:
>
> Sorbs in Germany
>
> http://www.domowina.de
>
> http://www.sorben.com/ski/
>
> The struggle to preserve the school in Crostwitz (in Sorbian & German)
>
> http://www.sorben.com/chroscicy/
>
> EUROLANG
> The European news agency for minority languages
>
> http://www.eurolang.net
>
> key word search "Sorbs" or "Crostwitz"
>
> Destruction of Sorbian villages
>
> http://www.horno-allianz.de/
>
> http://www.vattenfall-watch.de/
>
> PLEASE SEND THIS INFORMATION TO ALL MEDIA AND INTERESTED PERSONS!

End quote

Thank you, Mike Wintzer

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Language survival

Thanks, Mike.  Outside the Lowlands area I do take an interest in
Sorbian (Lusatian), a group of West Slavonic language varieties with two
standard varieties in the German states of Brandenburg and Saxony, and I
do so not only because I am partly of Sorbian descent.

Incidentally, there have been contacts between the northernmost
varieties of Lower Sorbian (in Brandenburg, near Berlin) and the
southeasternmost varieties of Lowlands Saxon (Low German) used in the
area of today's Germany.  The Sorbian-speaking region used to be much
larger than it is now, previously including, among other places, the
cities Dresden (Drježdzany [Drjez^dz'any]), Leipzig (Lipsk), Görlitz
(Zhorjelc), and some areas just east of today's German-Polish border.

> Ron has put a fascinating treatise on the
> subject on the LL website.
> (Ron, maybe you want to give the address,
> I donÂ´t have it at my fingertips.)

This might be what you meant:
http://www.sassisch.net/rhahn/low-saxon/lowsax.htm

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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