Germanistische Linguistik

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...

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...

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...