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Thursday, 29 July, 2010
Young people speak up for local dialects
Most of us are aware that Swiss-German is in fact a patchwork of local dialects that may change drastically over a distance of a few kilometers. But there are also many small dialects and languages still hanging on in the French and Italian speaking parts of the country and they’re growing in popularity amongst young people. The question is why? WRS’s Conor Lennon asked Alain Schorderet from the Swiss Study Foundation, which recently brought together a group of students from all over the country to learn more about each other’s languages.
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