Germanistische Linguistik

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...

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...

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...