Re: Re: Intlwiki-l Alsatian

Staffan V wrote:

>Jimmy Wales wrote:
>
>>It should be created as soon as possible.  I haven't followed the
>>
>
>But is it a language or a dialect? That is doesn't have a language code
>seems to indicate that it infact is a dialect.
>
 From 
http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:fsQ9FcLEy-AJ:www.finska.su.se/konf03/ICML09Abstracts/JSautre.pdf+alsatian+language&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

I find that it has two main dialects: a “Nieder-alemannisch” used in 
most of the territory and a “Hoch-alemannisch” in the south.

The language/dialect distinction is quite subjective, and there seems to 
be a stronger case for recognizing Alsatian as a separate language than 
for Bosnian or Moldovan.

Ec