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Topic: Alsatian language

	Alsace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The traditional language of the region is Alsatian, an Alemannic dialect of Upper German.
		This situation has provoked a sort of desire to preserve the traditional Alsatian language, which is perceived as in danger in front of French, a situation paralleled in other regions of France with regional languages such as Brittany or Occitania.
		Alsatian cuisine, strongly influenced by the Germanic culinary traditions, is marked by the use of pork in various forms.
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Alsace (1808 words)

	Languages of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Several other languages are spoken by a substantial percentage of the population due to immigration.
		Opponents contend that local languages are often non-standardized (thus making curricula difficult), of dubious practical usefulness (since most are spoken by a small number of people, without any sizable corpus of publications) and that the curriculum and funding of public schools are already too strained.
		One example: while the data tell us that 610,000 adults in 1999 had one of the languages of Oc as their mother tongue, the survey also found out that another 1,060,000 adults were born and raised in families in which one of the languages of Oc was occasionally spoken.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Languages_of_France (1420 words)

	French language - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		French is the 11th most spoken language in the world, spoken by about 77 million people (called Francophones) as a mother tongue, and 128 million including second language speakers, in 1999.
		For the history of the French language, the most important of these groups are the Franks (northern France), the Alemanni (German/French border), the Burgundians (the Rhone valley) and the Visigoths (the Aquitaine region and Spain).
		French is an official language of New Brunswick, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, and is the sole official language of Quebec.
	open-encyclopedia.com /French_language (2510 words)

	Alsatian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alsatian (French Alsacien, German Elsässisch) is a Low Alemannic German dialect spoken in Alsace, a region now in eastern France, and historically passing between French and German control many times.
		It is often confused with the Frankish language, a more distantly related German West Franconian dialect.
		As the constitution of the Fifth Republic states that French is the language of the Republic, no regional language is granted any official status in France.
	www.hackettstown.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Alsatian_language (222 words)

	Lorrain language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lorrain is a language spoken by a minority of people in Lorraine in France and in Gaume in Belgium.
		It is classified as a regional language of France, and has the recognised status of a regional language of Wallonia (where it is known as Gaumais).
		Also, the name Lorraine is applied to the Frankish language spoken in Lorraine, a Germanic language, closely related to Alsatian, the Alemannic language of the original Alsatians, as well as various Swiss dialects.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Lorrain (152 words)

	Languages of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There are a number of languages of France, although the French language is the only official language of the country.
		The 1999 Report written for the French government by Bernard Cerquiglini identified 75 languages that would qualify for recognition under the government's proposed ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
		Certain of the languages of France are also cross-border languages (for example, Basque, Catalan, Picard, Norman, Franco-Provençal, Flemish, Occitan and others), many of which enjoy a recognised or official status in the respective neighbouring state or territory.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/l/la/languages_of_france.html (301 words)

	Alsatian Language
		Though Alsace is a province of France, the language spoken there and passed down from generation to generation is an unwritten Germanic dialect and similar to the language spoken across the Rhine in Switzerland and Germany.
		The majority of Alsatian emigrants who came to Castroville during the 19th century were from Haut-Rhin (translation: upper Rhine), the southern section of the province around Mulhouse.
		Alsatians are amazed when they encounter Castroville Alsatians speaking the same dialect today that their ancestors brought to Texas some six and seven generations ago.
	www.castroville.com /alsatian_language.htm (256 words)

	Alsatian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alsatian (French Alsacien, German Elsässisch) is a Low Alemannic dialect spoken in Alsace, a region now in eastern France, and historically passing between French and German control many times.
		It is often confused with the Frankish language, a more distantly related German Western Franconian dialect.
		Euromosaic - German in France - The status of Alsatian in France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alsatian_language (213 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Alsatian
		French is the dominant language in both Alsace and Lorraine.
		Alsatian, a German dialect, is also spoken in this area, chiefly in Alsace, although its...
		In the Alsace-Lorraine area of eastern France live the Alsatians, a people whose native tongue is a dialect of High German.
	encarta.msn.com /Alsatian.html (100 words)

	French people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The French language derives from Latin, a certain amount of Germanic words, and the Norsemen/Vikings who settled in Normandy.
		Asatian, a language spoken in the French province of Alsace
		Breton, the language of the French province of Brittany
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/French_people (314 words)

	Lorraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A part of Lorraine, along with Alsace, was reunited with Germany after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 causing a number of French people to emigrate into France, and a part of Lorraine remained a part of Germany until the end of World War I, when Germany had to cede it to France.
		This is a different German dialect from the neighbouring Alsatian language, with which it is often confused.
		Like most of France's regional languages (such as Breton, Provençal and Alsatian) Frankish was largely replaced by French with the advent of mandatory public schooling in the 19th and 20th centuries.
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Lorraine (677 words)

	Encyclopedia: Alsace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Subdivisions Alemannic language Austro-Bavarian language Upper German is a family of High German languages spoken primarily in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Northern Italy.
		A regional language is a language spoken in a part of a country - it may be a small area, a federal state or province, or a wider area.
		The traditional habitat of the Alsatian lowland is constituted of houses constructed with walls in half-timbering and cob and roofing in flat tiles.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alsace (8254 words)

	Edward Sapir: Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences: Dialect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		No known language, unless it be artificially preserved for liturgical or other non-popular uses, has ever been known to resist the tendency to split up into dialects, any one of which may in the long run assume the status of an independent language.
		A community which takes on a language that is different from the one to which it has originally been accustomed will unconsciously carry over into the adopted language peculiarities of its own form of speech which are pronounced enough to give its use of the foreign language a dialectic tinge.
		The language of such a nationality is generally based on a local dialect and spreads at the expense of other dialects which were originally of as great prestige as the culturally more powerful one.
	spartan.ac.brocku.ca /~lward/Sapir/Sapir_1931_a.html (2144 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia Alsatian language -
		Alsatian (French Alsacien, German Elsässerdeutsch) is a German Alemannic dialect.
		Spoken in Alsace, a region in France and subsequently heavily influenced by French.
		Euromosaic - German in France (http://www.uoc.es/euromosaic/web/document/alemany/an/i3/i3) - The status of Alsatian in France.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/al/Alsatian (100 words)

	Alsatian language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Alsatian is a German Alemannic dialect spoken in Alsace, a region in eastern France which has passed between French and German control many times during its history.
		There is limited usage Alsatian in the media: one radio station, Radio France Alsace, broadcasts in Alsatian and other radio and TV stations broadcast some programs in the dialect.
		Alsatian is not easily intelligible to speakers of standard German, but is closely related to other Alemannic dialects, such as Swiss German and Swabian.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/alsatian.htm (222 words)

	Alsatian dialect taught at school for the first time - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We expected nine or ten kids and were surprised when 30 enrolled for Alsatian language lessons», explains Jacques Pinéda, the director of the college in Sierentz in the Alsace.
		The dialect is mainly a spoken language, but nevertheless the written form won’t be neglected, with Romain Sontag defining the alphabet.
		It will be interesting to see at the end of the school year how many pupils will keep up their Alsatian language lessons, as well as how many of the next year will be equally interested.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=90944 (772 words)

	5th Strasbourg European Film Forum
		Evidence of a strong regional identity persists though with the Alsatian language, seen on street signs in the city center.
		Alsatian cuisine focuses on local products from the rich soil and farms near the border of the Rhine.
		Good Alsatian cuisine in the festival center is at A la Tete de Lard (3, rue Hannong; 03 88 32 13 56).
	www.filmfestivals.com /strasbourg/2000/guide.htm (921 words)

	European Ombudsman Decision 38/2000/(XD)LBD
		The complainant is the President of an Alsatian association (Elsässer Zükunft) which promotes the Alsatian language.
		The Commission first recalled that a subvention was granted to the association in September 1995, for the launching of a municipal centre of Alsatian culture from September 1995 to November 1995.
		However, the contract concluded between the association and the Commission was directed at the project mentioned in the subvention form, which had to be performed from September to November 1995 and which only concerned the launching of the centre.
	www.euro-ombudsman.eu.int /decision/en/000038.htm (1386 words)

	Wer güet schmiert, fàhrt güet: Hope Rises on the Upper Rhine
		Their language is one of several Germanic dialects spoken in the Rhine country’s Three Nations region, where France, Luxembourg, and Germany converge.
		The Alsatian people have suffered grievously at the hands of both, and today most simply wish to be left in peace by whoever’s in charge this week.
		It is truly unfortunate that local languages are dying at such an appalling rate.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/world_languages/38017 (706 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - France: Miscellaneous
		Jacques Chirac stated that he is in favor of regional languages, but he made it clear that he is not prepared to neither change the Constitution, nor to ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
		The transmission of Alsatian is mainly carried out from parents to their children, but this trend has clearly declined since the beginning of the 20th Century — from 90 percent to only 50 percent in 1970s.
		According to him, maintaining of the language diversity is not costly at all since the costs covering translations within the EU institutions are just 2 per inhabitant, what is the price for a cup of coffee.
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=59&TID=8 (1741 words)

	Alsace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alsace''' (French languageFrench: '''''Alsace'''''; Alsatian languageAlsatian/German languageGerman: '''''Elsaß''''') is a region of Francerégion of France.
		The traditional language of the region is Alsatian languageAlsatian, an Alemannic dialect of Upper German.
		The linguistic situation of Alsace can be summed up like this: the region is fast evolving toward a situation where standard French is the only language used at home and at work, whereas an increasing number of people have a good knowledge of German languagestandard German/ as a foreign language learnt in school.
	www.infothis.com /find/Alsace (1851 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - European languages
		The Basque language of the northern Iberian Peninsula is a language isolate, and as such is not closely related to any other language.
		The Finno-Ugric languages are a subfamily of the Uralic language family.
		The Romance languages decended from the Vulgar Latin spoken across most of the lands of the Roman Empire.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/European_language (174 words)

	Alsace
		Alsatian bakers are famous for their cakes made from yeast dough.
		Many of the Alsatian dishes are not cooked in olive oil but rather in goose fat or schmaltz.
		Alsatian crayfish used to be bountiful but is no longer, so most crayfish served today is actually imported from America.
	splendidpalate.net /Alsace.html (4484 words)

	Demographics of France - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The French language derives from the vernacular Latin spoken by the Romans in Gaul, although it includes many Celtic and Germanic words.
		French has been an international language for centuries and is a common second language throughout the world.
		It is one of five official languages at the United Nations.
	openproxy.ath.cx /de/Demographics_of_France.html (347 words)

	American Profile: 2/11/2001 - 2/17/2001: Castroville, TX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A handful of people in the town of 2,100 still speak the Alsatian language—an unwritten German dialect—and many cook traditional dishes from the province on the Rhine in France.
		Some of Castroville’s Alsatian traditions also are new, sparked by a sister-city relationship with Eguisheim, France, that began in 1975.
		A 17th century Alsatian fachwerk, a timbered-framework house common to Alsace and Germany, has been taken apart by French volunteers and shipped to Texas.
	www.americanprofile.com /issues/20010211/20010211cen_539.asp (647 words)

	L'Alsace spécifique
		It would be wrong to believe that the Alsatian must daily rack his brain about the question whether he should or should not draw its cultural substance from one, two or three cultural sources.
		The plain truth is that no choice is left to him if he wants to stand by his past as a whole, to be up to the challenges of the present and to secure a future that enables him to make the most of all the cultural potentialities of Alsace.
		it is not because it is "the language of the neighbour" i.e.
	mapage.noos.fr /ephil/uk_alsa1.htm (3319 words)

	HIGH GERMAN FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The German term ''Hochdeutsch'' is also used loosely, but not by linguists, to mean standard written German as opposed to dialect, because the standard language developed out of High rather than Low German.
		The historical forms of the language are Old_High_German and Middle_High_German.
		Note that divisions between subfamilies of Germanic are rarely precisely defined; most form continuous clines, with adjacent dialects being mutually intelligible and more separated ones not.
	www.beatlesfacts.com /High_German (435 words)

	Fer's Elsass !/ Pour l'Alsace !
		The Alsatian, our centuries-old language, is already more and more looked after, and we are glad to see that.
		For a few time, the French language became the second official language from our neighbours in Saarland and London is already granting broadcasting programs in welsh.
		Restoring its place to the language is the only one way to show that the language is still alive, that Milhüsa, isn't Mulhouse nor Mülhausen.
	fers.elsass.free.fr /En/petition.htm (320 words)

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		That evening, Roger Levy and I went to shul in Selestat to commemorate the shabbat, and I asked him what language he was speaking on the business about this or that, and he answered that it was the local dialect.
		And then I made a second leap by assuming that Judeo Alsatian, was Alsatian written in Hebrew characters and that when Jews would speak it, it differed in no significant way from when Gentiles would speak it.
		But what Roger Levy spoke whenever he lapsed in that third language was not Yiddish, not one word of it.
	shakti.trincoll.edu /~mendele/vol05/vol05.190 (1084 words)

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