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Hi, this will be my last post here on Walser and Walliser German as I've gone as far as I can.<BR>
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Yes, agreed, probably content such as at Facebook and Twitter, as well as emails, may be written in the various normally non-written German languages.<BR><BR>(I did a few online places searching for 'Wallisertitsch' instead of for 'Walliserdeutsch'--primarily at facebook--though all I can tell is that the language is related to German:<BR><BR>http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=28976458984<BR>http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=27901141366 (this one's about surfing it seems; but I can't tell you in what language)<BR><BR>However regarding the site you linked to (hmm)--<BR>I could not view the list of links but wonder whether language at the links matches the site language-- perhaps not if these are links to extraneous sites.<BR><BR> <BR>In any case, as I said, I do wonder whether Walliser German is as close to Walser German as the various English dialects are to each other.)<BR><BR>
(But of course I don't believe that North and South Levantine Arabic are that far from each other <BR>and these have separate language codes now!<BR>
trouble deciding whether Lebanese was North or South Levantine (splitting off the North and South Levantine has introduced a 'can of worms' it seems maybe??? I'm not an expert but I've had this feeling before seeing this page:<BR><A href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_South_Levantine_Arabic#Arguments_against">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_South_Levantine_Arabic#Arguments_against</A>).<BR><BR><BR>So we have two questions, the first for the JAC:<BR>
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(1), Should we let Walliser German get its own language subtag rather than being treated, together with Walser German, as variants of a single language that includes only those two varieties at present?<BR><BR>
<BR>And for the second, (2), what macrolanguage would it be classified under? (that is if it becomes an extention language), in any case, I don't see that we can include Walliser German under Swiss German if the JAC/ ethnologue has separated these--even though some speakers may perceive it as a variety of Swiss German. Is this correct?<BR><BR>
For possible macrolanguages there's not only gem and de but also gmw.<BR>
<BR>If you are looking for a macrolanguage that encompasses both, I think [de] is the best choice--we've had this discussion before--not [gem] or West Germanic.<BR><BR>
But with my solution, there is just one language (Walser-Walliser German) and two variants. I don't know if that will 'fly' or not.<BR>
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<BR>Best,<BR><BR>C. E. Whitehead<BR>cewcathar@hotmail.com<BR><BR><BR> </body>
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