LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM 1. Name of requester: Stéphane Bortzmeyer 2. E-mail address of requester: bortzmeyer+langtag@nic.fr 3. Record Requested: Type: variant Subtag: alsatian Description: Alsatian variant of Alemannic Description: Elsässisch Prefix: gsw Comments: 4. Intended meaning of the subtag: There is a distinct variety of Alemannic spoken in Alsace. It is distinct from the language spoken in Germany and Switzerland partly for political reasons, because Alsace has been a french province for a long time. 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article): * (fr) "L'alsacien, deuxième langue régionale de France" Insee, Chiffres pour l'Alsace no. 12, December 2002 http://www.insee.fr/fr/insee_regions/alsace/rfc/docs/cpar12_1.pdf * (fr) Brunner, Jean-Jacques. L'alsacien sans peine. ASSiMiL, 2001. ISBN 2-7005-0222-1 * (fr) Laugel-Erny, Elsa. Cours d'alsacien. Les Editions du Quai, 1999. ISBN 978-2903548018 * (fr) Matzen, Raymond, and Léon Daul. Wie Geht's ? Le dialecte à la portée de tous La Nuée Bleue, 1999. ISBN 2-7165-0464-4 * (fr) Matzen, Raymond, and Léon Daul. Wie Steht's ? Lexiques alsacien et français, Variantes dialectales, Grammaire La Nuée Bleue, 2000. ISBN 2-7165-0525-X * (de) Frédéric Hartweg: Die Sprachen im Elsass: Kalter Krieg oder versöhntes Miteinander?. In: Ingo Kolboom und Bernd Rill (Hrsg.): Frankophonie -- nationale und internationale Dimensionen. Argumente und Materialien zum Zeitgeschehen 35, München: Hanns Seidel Stiftung, ISBN 3-88795-249-9. http://www.hss.de/downloads/argumente_materialien_35.pdf * (de) Hubert Klausmann, Konrad Kunze und Renate Schrambke (1994): Kleiner Dialektatlas - Alemannisch und Schwäbisch in Baden-Württemberg. Veröff. Alem. Inst. Frbg. Themen der Landeskunde 6, Bühl (Baden): Konkordia, 1994. * (de) Friedrich Maurer: Neue Forschungen zur südwestdeutschen Sprachgeschichte. In: Sprachgeographie Beih. Wirkendes Wort. 21, S. 119-163, Düsseldorf: Schwann, 1972. 6. Any other relevant information: Do note there exists several "sub-dialects" (specifically between North and South of Alsace) but I do not know if there is a comprehensive list of them yet. Do note also that some alsatian local dialects are *not* variant of Alemannic at all but Franconian or even Roman languages. Alsatian is still in common use in Alsace, spoken and written. There is a localization of Microsoft Word (http://www.faz.net/s/Rub4C34FD0B1A7E46B88B0653D6358499FF/Doc~E7E48128AB8C348E1BCEB1EAF2D4105EA~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html) but I do not know if they use proper language tags.