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The Making of a Language

The Making of a Language

Wicherkiewicz, Tomasz

Hardcover

Series: Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [Tildoc], Book 19

Miscellaneous LanguagesYiddish

ISBN10: 311017099X
ISBN13: 9783110170993
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Feb 25 2003
Pages: 550
Weight: 2.08
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The book presents unique literature in a minority ethnolect - the Germanic dialect of Wilamowice in Southern Poland. The manuscripts, written in the ethnolect at the beginning of the 20th century, were discovered in 1989. The book contains full versions of several texts of various length written by Florian Biesik, who decided to create a literary standard for Wilamowicean in order to prove its non-German, but possibly Anglo-Saxon, Dutch, Flemish or Frisian origin. Thus it presents both the dialectal literature and the most important elements of the local culture during the final stages of its extinction.

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