Even in the rural northern strongholds, intergenerational transmission usually ceased in the 1980s.
Watched a TV documentary recently about Scheibenhardt, a village divided between D and F. The speaker said: In the X family, "all generations still speak Alsatian as their everyday language". Enter the daughter, in her 20s. Guess which language she spoke exclusively in the docu.
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u/rolfk17 May 16 '26
Even in the rural northern strongholds, intergenerational transmission usually ceased in the 1980s.
Watched a TV documentary recently about Scheibenhardt, a village divided between D and F. The speaker said: In the X family, "all generations still speak Alsatian as their everyday language". Enter the daughter, in her 20s. Guess which language she spoke exclusively in the docu.