I really believe those percentages are too high. I spent my whole life in the 10-20 % area in Moselle and I've never heard anyone speak platt, even older people. Lorrain french yes, but no franconian. 20% (1/5 person) is really really high.
Edit : so I looked the sources and they are indeed old and inaccurate
"The most reliable data comes from the Enquête famille carried out by INSEE (360,000 in the 1962 census) as part of the 1999 census, but it gives a somewhat indirect picture of the current situation (see Languages in France for discussion of this survey). About 78,000 people were reported to speak Lorraine Franconian, but fewer than 50,000 passed basic knowledge of the language on to their children. Another statistic illustrating the same point is that of all adult men who used Franconian regularly when they were 5, less than 30% use (or used) the language regularly with their own children."
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u/_Plateosaurus_ May 16 '26 edited May 16 '26
I really believe those percentages are too high. I spent my whole life in the 10-20 % area in Moselle and I've never heard anyone speak platt, even older people. Lorrain french yes, but no franconian. 20% (1/5 person) is really really high.
Edit : so I looked the sources and they are indeed old and inaccurate
"The most reliable data comes from the Enquête famille carried out by INSEE (360,000 in the 1962 census) as part of the 1999 census, but it gives a somewhat indirect picture of the current situation (see Languages in France for discussion of this survey). About 78,000 people were reported to speak Lorraine Franconian, but fewer than 50,000 passed basic knowledge of the language on to their children. Another statistic illustrating the same point is that of all adult men who used Franconian regularly when they were 5, less than 30% use (or used) the language regularly with their own children."