ABOUT ME AND MY LANGUAGE
ABOUT ME AND MY LANGUAGE
| Your first name | Marie-Therese |
| Your last name | LAWEN |
| Preferred name(s) of your language | Elsaessich |
| Alternative names | |
| Language classification | Germanic |
| Geographic areas where spoken | Alsace, a province in the East of France |
| Approximate number of monolingual speakers | no more monolingual speaker |
| Approximate number of fluent speakers | 600 000 ?
- 1 500 000 in 1988 |
| Other languages spoken in area/country | French |
| Official language(s) in your country | French |
| What language(s) did you use at school as a child? | French |
| What language(s) is used by teachers today? | French |
| Do the representatives of neighboring ethnic groups learn to speak your language? | no |
| If you answered yes to the above question, please specify | |
| Does you language have a widely accepted writing system? | writing system was established about 200 years ago but it is not standardized |
| If you answered yes, what materials are written? | novels,
poetry, plays, songs |
| NUMBERS | |
| 1 | eins |
| 2 | zwei |
| 3 | drej |
| 4 | vier |
| 5 | fenf |
| 6 | sex |
| 7 | seve |
| 8 | acht |
| 9 | nin |
| 10 | zehn |
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