New Speakers in the City

We are happy to announce our Panel entitled "New speakers in the city: Language revitalization without native speakers" during the XVIII International Conference on Minority Languages, organized by the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao. The conference will be held on March 24th-26th online. The program can be found here . Abstract of the colloquium In many places in Europe, language revitalization is increasingly attributed to young, predominantly urban and highly mobile people who are not “native” speakers of the language in question and are not based in its traditional, rural “heartland”. In recognition of this, the panel New Speakers in the City: Language Revitalization Without Native Speakers brings together four members of a project looking at such “new” speakers of Breton in Rennes (Upper Brittany, France) and of Lower Sorbian in Cottbus (Lower Lusatia/Brandenburg, Germany), each from their own unique disciplinary perspective. The goal of the project is to unde