期刊名称：Taal en Tongval: Language Variation in the Low Countries
印刷版ISSN：0039-8691
电子版ISSN：2215-1214
出版年度：2021
卷号：72
期号：1
页码：7-16
DOI：10.5117/TET2020.1.VERS
出版社：Amsterdam University Press
摘要：Abstract Dialect Death in the Low Countries The death of Dutch dialects has been anticipated on various occasions in the past, a prediction that had not been borne out until the end of the twentieth century. Reliable figures about the state of autochthonous language diversity are surprisingly scarce. Lumping together and harmonizing figures from long term studies on dialect competences of students and schoolchildren from Belgium and the Netherlands, one can observe a gradual decline in the Netherlands over the 20 th century and a more rapid decline in Flanders since the sixties, both ultimately heading towards (nearly) ‘zero’ for children born in 2020. Drastic reduction of linguistic diversity turns out not to be a privilege of the Amazonas or Papua New Guinea. The linguistic map of the Dutch speaking areas is filled with Randstad-oriented speech in the Netherlands, an emerging Tussentaal (‘In-between-language’) in Flanders and pockets of resistance of traditional vernaculars in Fryslân and Dutch Limburg, as well as some incidental communities in a few villages around the country.
关键词：language death; language shift; Dutch dialects
