"What is the explanation for the nature, character and evolution of the many different varieties of English in the world today? Which changes in the English language are the legacy of its origins and which are the product of novel influences in the places to which it was transpo…
Dialect death: the case of Brule Spanish
Dialect death: the case of Brule Spanish
Dialect death: the case of Brule Spanish
The Brule Dwellers of Ascension Parish are descendants of Canary Island immigrants who came to Louisiana in the late 1700s. A few residents in and around the Ascension Parish area still speak an archaic dialect of Spanish which is at the brink of linguistic extinction. Because t…
Das »Wörterbuch zum jiddischen Lehnwortschatz in den deutschen Dialekten« behandelt den jahrhundertelang andauernden Sprachenkontakt zwischen dem Westjiddischen und dem Deutschen, der sich besonders stark in der gesprochenen Sprache niedergeschlagen hat und jetzt der Vergangenhe…
Main description: The>>Dictionary of Yiddish Loan-Words in German Dialects<<documents contact between the German and Yiddish languages, with special reference to German dialects. The material was taken from German dialect dictionaries, compiled systematically and revised lexicog…