LL-L "Language varieties" 2004.10.31 (10) [E]

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A=Afrikaans Ap=Appalachian B=Brabantish D=Dutch E=English F=Frisian
L=Limburgish LS=Lowlands Saxon (Low German) N=Northumbrian
S=Scots Sh=Shetlandic V=(West)Flemish Z=Zeelandic (Zeêuws)
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From: Gary Taylor <gary_taylor_98 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Language Varieties

Hi Everyone

Ingmar made the comment:

"To be honest, for me the focus could me a lot less on English too. Of
course that would make the number of interested a bit smaller and less
widespread, but linguistically it would be more logic"

>>From a 'logical' linguistic viewpoint then I would
include Lower Saxon, Frisian, Scots and English and
cut out Dutch as that is descended from a Lower
Franconian dialect, whereas the other four are all
from very closely related North Sea dialects.
Admittedly, English and Scots have lots of
Scandinavian and (Norman) French influences plus lots
of other loan words and so doesn't seem quite as
similar as the others. But Low Saxon has also got huge
amounts of High German loan words, Frisian has lots of
Dutch loan words, and Dutch has a lot of French loan
words etc.

But saying all this - I'm happy to have them all
included on this list including Middelsprake (hope
I've spelt that correctly...) ;)

Gary

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