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Mark Louden and Guido Seiler feature in an article on “The Inter-Amish Language Barriers of Indiana”

Anita Auer News 25 August 201611 September 2016

Read this interesting article about the Swiss Amish of Adams County, Indiana, and the important role that yodeling plays in their language use: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-interamish-language-barriers-of-indiana

  • Jonathan Kasstan looks at efforts how to keep Francoprovençal alive →

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  • An article by Ladina Knüsli on the language of Matthias Dürst’s diary (Glarus) has just been published!
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  • The programme of the CUSO workshop “Methodological approaches to synchronic and diachronic heritage language data”, to take place at the Université de Lausanne on 16 and 17 February 2018, is now online!
  • Guido Seiler and Mark Louden were interviewed about Pennsylvania Dutch and Swiss German spoken in America for a Swissinfo article

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