Minority Germanic Languages
Abstrak
34.1.1 Identifying Minority Germanic Languages This chapter examines the sociolinguistic situation of Germanic languages that are spoken by a minority of residents of a given nation. While the definitionsof thedescriptors “minority” and“Germanic” areuncontroversial, theproblemofdistinguishingbetween“languages”and“dialects” is a familiar one. It is well-known that there are no absolute scientific criteria according to which linguistic systemsmay be labeled languages or dialects, rather it is the external, often political, situation of speaker groups that determineswhether varieties sharing a common linguistic ancestor are sufficiently autonomous from one another as to be viewed as distinct languages or not. The language-dialect question is a relevant one in this chapter. The standard reference work on the documentation of linguistic diversity worldwide, Ethnologue (Simons and Fennig 2017), lists 47 languages as belonging to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family, 6 of which are part of the North subgroup; the remaining 41 are in the West subgroup. These are listed below.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (1)
Mark L. Louden
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2020
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 4×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1017/9781108378291.035
- Akses
- Open Access ✓