Re: My version

--- On Sat, 2/21/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: My version
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 2:45 PM
> > In Italy, too, many people try to ged rid of their
> dialect in order
> > to upgrade their own social/cultural status. Nowadays
> this is a
> > common pehenomenon all over in Europe, but how old is
> it? I guess
> > that the Danes of, say, the 19th century didn't
> feel ashamed of
> > their dialect(s). Have you ever made any search to
> establish which
> > social groups spoke Danish dialects till the 19th
> century?
>
> The language of the three landscape laws of the 13th
> century, Jyske
> Lov, Sjællandske Lov and Skaanske Lov, are written in
> different
> dialects, Jyske Lov the most creolized (with the most
> simplified
> grammar, for you traditionalists out there), Skaanske Lov
> the least,
> which is also the case of the dialects of those landscapes
> later.
> With Danske Lov of 1683 those were replaced by a
> constitution with
> more centralized power than even France.
>
> Until the mid 19th century half the population of
> Copenhagen spoke
> German; that changed with Schleswig wars.

Low German from the Hansa days? Or High German as a prestige language?

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