Mikroglottika
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Mikroglottika - An International Journal of Minority Language Philologies is a linguistic journal about minority language
s. Mikroglottika's goal is to promote the study of the philology
, phonology
, syntax
, and lexicon
of minority languages, and constructive linguistic studies.
, Dr. Daniel Veith of University of Salamanca, and Dr. Mikel Martínez Areta of the University of the Basque Country
,
and published by the Peter Lang Publishing Group.
The Mikroglottika Yearbook 2008 (ISBN 978-3-631-58027-1) is a book published by Mikroglottika. It has content about the Basque
, German
, Leonese
, Luxemburgian, and Ukrainian
languages, being also written in English, Spanish and Italian.
Minority language
A minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory. Such people are termed linguistic minorities or language minorities.-International politics:...
s. Mikroglottika's goal is to promote the study of the philology
Philology
Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...
, phonology
Phonology
Phonology is, broadly speaking, the subdiscipline of linguistics concerned with the sounds of language. That is, it is the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use...
, syntax
Syntax
In linguistics, syntax is the study of the principles and rules for constructing phrases and sentences in natural languages....
, and lexicon
Lexicon
In linguistics, the lexicon of a language is its vocabulary, including its words and expressions. A lexicon is also a synonym of the word thesaurus. More formally, it is a language's inventory of lexemes. Coined in English 1603, the word "lexicon" derives from the Greek "λεξικόν" , neut...
of minority languages, and constructive linguistic studies.
Editors
The journal is edited by Prof. Dr. Raúl Sánchez Prieto of the University of SalamancaUniversity of Salamanca
The University of Salamanca is a Spanish higher education institution, located in the town of Salamanca, west of Madrid. It was founded in 1134 and given the Royal charter of foundation by King Alfonso IX in 1218. It is the oldest founded university in Spain and the third oldest European...
, Dr. Daniel Veith of University of Salamanca, and Dr. Mikel Martínez Areta of the University of the Basque Country
University of the Basque Country
The University of the Basque Country is the only public university in the Basque Country, in Northern Spain...
,
and published by the Peter Lang Publishing Group.
The Mikroglottika Yearbook 2008 (ISBN 978-3-631-58027-1) is a book published by Mikroglottika. It has content about the Basque
Basque language
Basque is the ancestral language of the Basque people, who inhabit the Basque Country, a region spanning an area in northeastern Spain and southwestern France. It is spoken by 25.7% of Basques in all territories...
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, Leonese
Leonese language
The Leonese language is the endonym term used to refer to all vernacular Romance dialects of the Astur-Leonese linguistic group in the Spanish provinces of León and Zamora; Astur-Leonese also includes the dialects...
, Luxemburgian, and Ukrainian
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
languages, being also written in English, Spanish and Italian.
Publisher
The publisher is the multinational Peter Lang, well known because of the scientific quality of their publications, often just doctorate works or university teachers.Articles
Like an example of its characteristics on the field of minority languages, the 2008 issue has this content and writers:- Mikel Martínez Areta: La reconstrucción lingüística del proto-vasco: I. Fonética histórica.
- Daniel Veith: Deutsche Sprache und Kultur in Rolândia. Ergebnisse einer sprachsoziologischen Enquête in Südbrasilien.
- Abel Pardo Fernández: El Llïonés y la TICs and Linguistica contrastiva italiano-leonese: vocalismo.
- Fernando Sánchez: Diccionario de la variante leonesa de Las Arribes. Primer esbozo de la letra A.
- Raúl Sánchez Prieto: La elaboración y aceptación de una norma lingüística en pequeñas comunidades dialectalmente divididas: el caso del leonés y del frisio del norte and Die Wortbildung im Luxemburgischen.
- François Schanen: Nominale Pluralbildung im Lëtzebuergëschen und Deutschen.
- Ángel David Hernández Nava: Ukrainian multilingualism and the lingering question of 'Ukrainization'. A view in perspective.