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Sierck-les-Bains (,
Lorraine Franconian
Lorraine Franconian (Lorraine Franconian: ''Plàtt'' or ''lottrìnger Plàtt''; french: francique lorrain or ''platt lorrain''; german: Lothringisch) is an ambiguous designation for dialects of West Central German (german: Westmitteldeutsch), ...
: ''Siirk''/''Siirck'') is a
commune
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in the
Moselle
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department
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in
Grand Est
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Rhine Franconian: ''Groß Oschte''; german: Großer Osten ; en, "Great East") is an administrative region in Northeastern France. It superseded three former administrat ...
in north-eastern
France
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.
![PanoramaSierck les bains](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/PanoramaSierck_les_bains.jpg)
Localities of the commune: Rudling, Kœnigsberg (German: Rudlingen, Königsberg)
Language Revitalization
Sierck-Les-Bains and other municipalities in the Moselle Department of France have attempted some limited projects to protect and revitalize the declining
Lorraine-Franconian dialects which were historically spoken in the region.
The dialect historically spoken in Sierck is closely related to the
Saarländisch dialects and
Luxembourgish
Luxembourgish ( ; also ''Luxemburgish'', ''Luxembourgian'', ''Letzebu(e)rgesch''; Luxembourgish: ) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 400,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide.
As a standard form of th ...
due to the village’s proximity to the German and Luxembourg borders. Sierck has put up road signs with the Lorraine Franconian name “Siirk” as well as street names in Lorraine Franconian. Such attempts to revitalize the Lorraine Franconian language has also been replicated in other municipalities in the Moselle department such as Hettange-Grande.
See also
*
Communes of the Moselle department
The following is a list of the 725 Communes of France, communes of the Moselle (department), Moselle Departments of France, department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as ...
References
Siercklesbains
Three Bishoprics
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