Lorraine Franconian

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Lorraine Franconian
Lottrìnger Plàtt
Native toFrance
RegionMoselle
Native speakers
(c. 360,000 cited 1962)[1]
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
Regulated byNo official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologloth1238  Lothringisch
IETFgmw-u-sd-fr57
The language border around 1630.
Franconian languages area: Central Franconian dialects in green.

Lorraine Franconian (Lorraine Franconian: Plàtt or lottrìnger Plàtt; French: francique lorrain or platt lorrain; German: Lothringisch) is an ambiguous designation for dialects of West Central German (German: Westmitteldeutsch), a group of High German dialects spoken in the Moselle department of the former northeastern French region of Lorraine (See Linguistic boundary of Moselle).

Description

The term Lorraine Franconian has multiple denotations. Some scholars use it to refer to the entire group of West Central German dialects spoken in the French Lorraine region. Others use it more narrowly to refer to the

Rhine Franconian to the east.[citation needed
]

The German term Lothringisch refers to Rhine Franconian spoken in Lorraine.[2][3]

In 1806 there were 218,662 speakers of Lorraine Franconian in Moselle and 41,795 speakers in Meurthe.[4]

In part due to the ambiguity of the term, estimates of the number of Lorraine Franconian speakers in France vary widely, ranging from 30,000

Alsatian
).

The most reliable data comes from the Enquête famille carried out by

Languages in France for discussion of this survey). About 78,000 people were reported to speak Lorraine Franconian, but fewer than 50,000 passed basic knowledge of the language on to their children. Another statistic illustrating the same point is that of all adult men who used Franconian regularly when they were 5, less than 30% use (or used) the language regularly with their own children.[7]

Bilingual signs

References

  1. ^ Héran
  2. ^ Joachim Herrgen, Lars Vorberger: Rheinfränkisch. In: Sprache und Raum: Ein internationales Handbuch der Sprachvariation. Band 4: Deutsch. Herausgegeben von Joachim Herrgen, Jürgen Erich Schmidt. Unter Mitarbeit von Hanna Fischer und Birgitte Ganswindt. Volume 30.4 of Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science / Manuels de linguistique et des sciences de communication) (HSK). Berlin/Boston, 2019, p. 478ff., here p. 490: „Die Binnendifferenzierung des Rheinfränkischen unterscheidet Nordrheinfränkisch, Pfälzisch (mit mehreren Unterdifferenzierungen) und Lothringisch. [...] Das Lothringische ist derjenige Teilraum des Rheinfränkischen, der [...]“
  3. ^ Helmut Glück, Michael Rödel (Hrsg.): Metzler Lexikon Sprache. 5th ed., J. B. Metzler Verlag, Stuttgart, 2016, p. 410 (Lothringisch mit Verweis auf Rheinfränkisch) & 568f. (Rheinfränkisch) with the following divisions:
    In the first sense:
    • Rheinfränkisch
      • Pfälzisch
        • Westpfälzisch
          • Lothringisch
        • Ostpfältzisch
        • Südhessisch
    In the second, traditional, broader sense:
    • Rheinfränkisch
      • Pfälzisch, with the same meaning as Rheinfränkisch in the first sense
      • Hessisch
        • Mittel-, Nieder-, Osthessisch
  4. ^ Sébastien Bottin, Mélanges sur les langues, dialectes et patois, Paris, 1831.
  5. ^ Auburtin
  6. ^ Langues régionales.org (Platt lorrain)
  7. ^ Héran

Sources

  • [1] Auburtin, Éric. 2002. "Langues régionales et relations transfrontalières dans l’espace Saar-Lor-Lux". Hérodote 105, pp. 102–122.
  • [2] Héran, François, et al. 2002. "La dynamique des langues en France au fil du XXe siècle". Population et sociétés 376. Paris: Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED).
  • Hughes, Stephanie. 2005. Bilingualism in North-East France with specific reference to Rhenish Franconian spoken by Moselle Cross-border (or frontier) workers. In Preisler, Bent, et al., eds. The Consequences of Mobility: Linguistic and Sociocultural Contact Zones. Roskilde, Denmark: Roskilde Universitetscenter: Institut for Sprog og Kultur. .
  • Kieffer, Jean-Louis. 2006. Le Platt Lorrain de poche. Assimil.

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