TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Adler, Astrid
T1  - Language, or dialect, that is the question. How attitudes affect language statistics using the example of Low German
JF  - Languages
N2  - This paper explores how attitudes affect the seemingly objective process of counting speakers of varieties using the example of Low German, Germany’s sole regional language. The initial focus is on the basic taxonomy of classifying a variety as a language or a dialect. Three representative surveys then provide data for the analysis: the Germany Survey 2008, the Northern Germany Survey 2016, and the Germany Survey 2017. The results of these surveys indicate that there is no consensus concerning the evaluation of Low German’s status and that attitudes towards Low German are related to, for example, proficiency in the language. These attitudes are shown to matter when counting speakers of Low German and investigating the status it has been accorded.
KW  - Mundart
KW  - Sprachstatistik
KW  - Niederdeutsch
KW  - Sprachkritik
KW  - Regionalsprache
KW  - language attitudes
KW  - dialect
KW  - status
KW  - language statistics
KW  - census
KW  - Low German
Y1  - 2021
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-103692
SN  - 2226-471X
SS  - 2226-471X
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6010040
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6010040
VL  - 6
IS  - 1: Article 40
SP  - 26
S1  - 26
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -