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From: rte@elmo.lz.att.com (Ralph T. Edwards)
Subject: Re: Lowlands language list
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In article <465uen$lc9@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>,
fm4a004@GEOMAT.math.uni-hamburg.de (Jens Wuepper) wrote:

> Quite a few people I asked about their 'native dialects' were reluctant
> to talk about the subject at first.  To many people a dialect seems to
> be almost a taboo subject -- it is what uneducated people speak, but
> *me*?  Oh, no.
> 

What percentage of Germans speak a dialect in addition to more or less
standard German?  How much does this vary by region?  I suppose in large
cities people are more likely to speak standard German because of the
mixing factor.  Do children in large cities learn any dialect?  Is there
an Othmarschen dialect?

-- 
R.T.Edwards rte@elmo.att.com 908 576-3031
