Addition request: alsatian

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

Request in the body, for the MIME-impaired.

LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

1. Name of requester: Stéphane Bortzmeyer

2. E-mail address of requester: bortzmeyer+langtag at nic.fr

3. Record Requested: 

   Type: variant
   Subtag: alsatian
   Description: Alsatian variant of Alemannic
   Description: Elsässisch
   Prefix: gsw
   Comments: 

4. Intended meaning of the subtag: There is a distinct variety of
Alemannic spoken in Alsace. It is distinct from the language spoken in
Germany and Switzerland partly for political reasons, because Alsace
has been a french province for a long time.

5. Reference to published description
of the language (book or article):

    * (fr) "L'alsacien, deuxième langue régionale de France" Insee,
    Chiffres pour l'Alsace no. 12, December 2002
    http://www.insee.fr/fr/insee_regions/alsace/rfc/docs/cpar12_1.pdf

    * (fr) Brunner, Jean-Jacques. L'alsacien sans peine. ASSiMiL,
      2001. ISBN 2-7005-0222-1

    * (fr) Laugel-Erny, Elsa. Cours d'alsacien. Les Editions du Quai,
      1999. ISBN 978-2903548018

    * (fr) Matzen, Raymond, and Léon Daul. Wie Geht's ? Le dialecte à
      la portée de tous La Nuée Bleue, 1999. ISBN 2-7165-0464-4

    * (fr) Matzen, Raymond, and Léon Daul. Wie Steht's ? Lexiques
      alsacien et français, Variantes dialectales, Grammaire La Nuée
      Bleue, 2000. ISBN 2-7165-0525-X

    * (de) Frédéric Hartweg: Die Sprachen im Elsass: Kalter Krieg oder
      versöhntes Miteinander?. In: Ingo Kolboom und Bernd Rill
      (Hrsg.): Frankophonie -- nationale und internationale
      Dimensionen. Argumente und Materialien zum Zeitgeschehen 35,
      München: Hanns Seidel Stiftung, ISBN
      3-88795-249-9. http://www.hss.de/downloads/argumente_materialien_35.pdf

    * (de) Hubert Klausmann, Konrad Kunze und Renate Schrambke (1994):
      Kleiner Dialektatlas - Alemannisch und Schwäbisch in
      Baden-Württemberg. Veröff. Alem. Inst. Frbg. Themen der
      Landeskunde 6, Bühl (Baden): Konkordia, 1994.

    * (de) Friedrich Maurer: Neue Forschungen zur südwestdeutschen
      Sprachgeschichte. In: Sprachgeographie Beih. Wirkendes Wort. 21,
      S. 119-163, Düsseldorf: Schwann, 1972.

6. Any other relevant information: Do note there exists several
"sub-dialects" (specifically between North and South of Alsace) but I
do not know if there is a comprehensive list of them yet. Do note also
that some alsatian local dialects are *not* variant of Alemannic at
all but Franconian or even Roman languages. Alsatian is still in
common use in Alsace, spoken and written. There is a localization of
Microsoft Word
(http://www.faz.net/s/Rub4C34FD0B1A7E46B88B0653D6358499FF/Doc~E7E48128AB8C348E1BCEB1EAF2D4105EA~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html)
but I do not know if they use proper language tags.