LL-L "Language politics" 2004.11.20 (03) [E]

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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at worldonline.nl>
Subject: LL-L "Language politics" 2004.11.20 (02) [E]

>>>>> Hoi Grietje
Frisian is not different from other regional languages/dialects in this
respect.
But I was wondering if there are numbers about this decline amongst native
Frisian speakers.
As we could read in the article, one third of the Friesland population was
born outside the province, so the majority of them won't be Frisian native
speakers.
But of the 'natives' of Friesland, the population of almost all the major
cities and of some areas speak dialects that aren't Frisian at all, but
Dutch/Hollandish - Stadsfries = city Frisian, Bildts and many Wadden Island
dialect, or Low Saxon in the Stellingwerven.
It would be interesting to know how the situation in the 'real' Frisian
speaking communities is.
hâld fêst, Ingmar

> Grietje:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Please find below two articles from Eurolang.
>
> Grietje Menger
> Scotland
>
> New survey shows Frisian declining with every generation
> Ljouwert 11/19/2004 , by Onno P. Falkena
> Children in Friesland speak much more Dutch than Frisian these days.
> According to a survey among parents of young children by the Frisian
> broadcaster Omrop Fryslân only 34 % of all children are nowadays raised in
> Frisian, while 54 % are raised in Dutch. Nine percent of the couples with
> children raise their children bilingually. Twenty years ago 42 % of all
> children were raised in Frisian, 48 % in Dutch and three percent
> bilingually.
>
> The effect of Frisian losing ground is that Frisian speaking children tend
> to speak much less Frisian with other children in schoolyards. Frisian is
> becoming rare in the playground, because only 9 % of the children in
> Friesland still speak Frisian there. One generation before the level stood
> at 30 %.
>
> “Frisian is clearly under threat", professor Durk Gorter of the University
> of Amsterdam acknowledges. “The language still looses approximately ten
> percent with every new generation. We defenitely need a campaign to
promote
> the language, especially with young parents. Most parents know very little
> about how to raise children in a minority language or bilingually."
>
> At the same time the general attitude of most Frisians towards the
language
> is quite positive. 95 % of the population understands Frisian, 66 % of the
> Frisians speak Frisian, 65 % claims to be 'proud' that they speak Frisian.
> Considering that one out of three Frisians were born outside Friesland
these
> figures are encouraging.

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