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From: peter@statsci.com (Peter Schumacher)
Subject: Re: Single European Language
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UJZA56B@prodigy.com (Kyle Gryphon) writes:

>languages of the western world.  Look at western Europe; all the non-
>standard
>dialects which aren't dying off are being forceably preserved by state 
>interventions.  

Alemannisch in France directly contradicts this. The French government is
systematically suppressing and discouraging its use in Alsace -- no doubt
because it is a dialect of German. I have this on the authority of a
native Swiss German speaker who lives in Alsace, is married to a
Frenchman, and speaks Alemannisch/Swiss German with him regularly.


Peter Schumacher
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Peter Schumacher
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