Volume 55 (2024), Edition 1

This paper focuses on the evaluation of Sater Frisian language usage in Wikipedia discussions. Sater Frisian is mostly used in oral communication. However, Sater Frisian language use is increasing in written communication e. g. Sater Frisian...

This paper focuses on the extent to which chunks/constructions used for the acquisition or development of language competence can function as a means of (re)vitalizing a minority language. This is illustrated by the German minority language in...

Using the example of the minority variety Plodarisch, the article explains different graphemic implementations of a minority variety and their variation. For the minority in Sappada/Plodn (Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Northern Italy), a coexistence of...

In the midst of the Carnic Alps lies a German-based minority, Sauris/Zahre, which has migrated from the Austrian border region since the 12th century. This article explores the question of which measures are being taken to (re-)vitalise the zahrar...

This paper investigates how linguistic norms are negotiated in German-speaking localities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The aim of the article is to find out whether linguistic norms still play a role in a heterogeneous multilingual context in which...

Recent decades have seen an increase in processes and projects related to the standardization and revitalization of minority languages. Starting from an overview of the language policy situation in Brazil, this article focuses on a contrastive...

This article critically discusses the question of the standardization as well as revitalization of the endangered creole language Unserdeutsch. What are the motives, what are the starting conditions, what needs to be considered and how likely is...

The village of Puhoi in New Zealand has been founded 1863 by Bohemian immigrants coming from the Egerland in the West of the todays Czech Republic, where the German dialect of Northern Bavaria has been spoken. The inhabitants kept their dialect for...

Although the tun-periphrasis is stigmatized in Standard German, it often appears in dialects and extraterritorial varieties of German. While it is frequently used in Texas and Australia, it is extremely rare in Transylvania and Namibia. The...

This essay deals with the German-Jewish community in Sosúa in the north of the Dominican Republic. This town was founded in the 1940s by a group of about 750 Jewish refugees from Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe and has not yet been researched...

This paper critically evaluates the academic orthography of Iraqw by examining emerging spelling conventions in social media. Iraqw (Southern Cushitic) is a primarily oral minority language spoken in Tanzania. Community-oriented language resources...