El estatus oficial del bajo alemán como "lengua regional"
- Mellado Blanco, Carmen
- Buján Otero, Patricia
ISSN: 1133-0406
Year of publication: 2005
Issue: 13
Pages: 129-142
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de filología alemana
Abstract
This paper sets out several considerations regarding the official status of low German as «regional language ». This status was conferred to it by the European Parliament and the European Council by reason of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in January 1999. Working on the concept «regional language», pros and cons of considering it a language or a dialect are analysed. Taking into account the Saxon idiosyncrasy and the development it is experiencing in different spoken and written fields as Ausbausprache, we conclude it deserves the status of language.