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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