Re: Diglossia
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 14, 2000, 8:13 |
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> Actually, quite a large pocket, encompassing the provinces of Groningen,
> Drenthe, Overijssel and the east half of Gelderland. And those people
> are all bilingual in Dutch, and quite many of them quadrilingual: they
> speak Low German, Dutch, High German and English.
Hey, wait a minute, I live in Overijssel and I know that not *all* of
it is in a pocket speaking Low German. The dialect of Deventer is
closer to German than, say, that of Utrecht, but it's still
recognizably Dutch.
Irina
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