Patrick Murtha
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This set of definitions for Europe works for other areas too, I think:
The various regional and minority languages in Europe encompass four categories:
Other such languages may or may not have a robust published literature, which may or may not have received much translation. But I am interested to learn, for example, that the major novel in Kashubian, Aleksander Majkowski’s The Life and Adventures of Remus, has been translated into French, German, and English, as well as Polish. (The English one is a little pricy for me right now, alas; I haven’t located a copy below $40 USD.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Adventures_of_Remus
The various regional and minority languages in Europe encompass four categories:
- The language of a community in one single country, where the language community is not the linguistic majority, e.g. Sorbian in Germany, or Welsh in the United Kingdom
- The language of a community in two or more country, in neither of which they are the linguistic majority, e.g. Basque in Spain and France, Sámi in Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden
- The language of a community who are a linguistic minority in one country, even though they are the majority in a different country, e.g. Danish in Germany, Finnish in Sweden, or Swedish in Finland
- Languages without any fixed territory, that are traditionally spoken in one or more countries, but which cannot be assorted to one specific region, e.g. the languages of Sinti and Roma, the Yiddish language, the Yenish language as well as Plautdietsch.
Other such languages may or may not have a robust published literature, which may or may not have received much translation. But I am interested to learn, for example, that the major novel in Kashubian, Aleksander Majkowski’s The Life and Adventures of Remus, has been translated into French, German, and English, as well as Polish. (The English one is a little pricy for me right now, alas; I haven’t located a copy below $40 USD.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Adventures_of_Remus