Office pour la Langue et les Cultures d’Alsace et de Moselle (OLCA) | Alsace and Moselle Language and Cultures Office

ORGANISATION

Office pour la Langue et les Cultures d’Alsace et de Moselle (OLCA) | Alsace and Moselle Language and Cultures Office

OLCA is the association to promote and to insure the vitality of the Alsatian language (spoken in Alsace) and of the Platt language (spoken in the Moselle).

OLCA’s goal is to make sure that the Alsatian and Platt languages gain (again) and keep an appropriate room in social life, as regards the trilingual history of the region (Alsatian/Platt, French, German). That includes working with municipalities, associations, schools, companies, early childhood services and settings, and of course with families. Our main objective is to encourage parents and grandparents to pass the language on to their children, if they are still able to and if that’s their wish.

COUNTRY

France

TYPE OF ORGANISATION

Associate Member

WEBSITE

INFORMATION ABOUT THE LANGUAGE

Alsatian – Platt

NAME OF THE LANGUAGE
NÀMME VÙN D’R SPROCH
Alsatian – Platt
Elsassisch – Plàttditsch
TOTAL NUMBER OF SPEAKERS
ZÀHL VÙN DE SPRECHER
Alsatian 800,000 – Platt : about 150,000 (no specific statistics)
Elsassisch : 800,000 – Plàttditsch : ùngfahr 150,000 (m’r wìsse nìt genäu)
REGULATED BY
GSEZTLICH VORGSCHRÌWWE DÙRICH
Not regulated
Ken Gsetz
GEOGRAPHICAL AREA
GEOGRÀFISCHER RÄUM
Alsace – Moselle
Elsàss – Mosel
LANGUAGE FAMILY
SPROCHFÀMÌLI
Germanic
Germànisch
STATUS OF THE LANGUAGE
STÀTÜS VÙN D’R SPROCH
No status
Ken Stàtüs
STATUS AT THE UNIVERSITY
STÀTÜS ÀN D’R ÜNIVERSITÄT

Option within the “CAPES d’allemand” at the University of Strasbourg.

Wàhlfàch ìm Ràhme vùm “CAPES d’allemand” àn d’r Üniversität vùn Strosbùri.
FIELDS OF USE
WO WÙRD D’SPROCH BENÙTZT

Spoken and written language within family members, in cultural events (literature, music, theater, etc…) and social life.

Mìndlichi ùn schrìftlichi Sproch – ìm Fàmìlie-Lawe ; ìm kültürelle Lawe (Literàtür, Müsik, Theàter, ùsw…), ìm soziàle Lawe.
MEMBERS OF THE NPLD
MÌTGLÌED VÙM NPLD

Associate members:

  • Associate member: Office pour la Langue et les Cultures d’Alsace et de Moselle (OLCA)

     

YEAR OF SOURCE

2017