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- Title
Foreign schriftdenken in ausbau languages: Luxembourgish and Rusyn orthographies in multiple language contact.
- Authors
Weth, Constanze; Bunčić, Daniel
- Abstract
The concept of schriftdenken describes how the knowledge of a writing system in use guides the creation of a writing system for a yet to be standardized language. Trubetz-koy described this effect with reference to the invention of the Glagolitic alphabet in the 9th century with Greek as the reference writing system. This paper demonstrates schriftdenken and measures to increase orthographic differences in two writing systems with a relatively young history: Luxembourgish (a Germanic language) and Rusyn (a Slavic language). In the Luxembourgish context, schriftdenken and orthographic separation are revealed by the historical context, whereas in the Rusyn context, both practices are related to different geographic contact situations in the countries where Rusyn is spoken and written. The reference languages for Luxembourgish are German, French and Dutch; for Rusyn, they are Russian, Ukrainian, Church Slavonic, Polish and Slovak.
- Subjects
LANGUAGE contact; ORTHOGRAPHY & spelling; SLAVIC languages; GERMANIC languages; LANGUAGE & languages; ORTHOGRAPHIC projection
- Publication
Written Language & Literacy, 2020, Vol 23, Issue 2, p289
- ISSN
1387-6732
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1075/wll.00045.wet