Do Dießen's children still speak Bavarian?
Created: 02/17/2022, 08:20
By: Dieter Roettig
The fact that this baby is growing up speaking the Bavarian language cannot be overlooked.
Three Dießen municipal councils are campaigning for all kids to speak dialect in addition to German as early as kindergarten (symbolic photo).
© Roettig
Dießen – The administration of the market town certainly has more important things to do than investigating in their kindergartens whether good Bavarian is still spoken here.
Just as it should be in a traditional place like Diessen.
That's what the local councilors Michael Hofmann (Bavaria Party), Volker Bippus (UBV) and Michael Lutzeier (Die PARTEI) are demanding.
You have submitted an application for an “evaluation of the number of dialect speakers in the municipal kindergartens”.
The committee community of the three lone fighters refers to the "Bavarian Children's Education and Care Act", BayKiBiG for short.
Dialects should be explicitly used, supported and cultivated in language education and support.
Family Minister Kerstin Schreyer: "We want day care centers and schools to respect and cultivate the dialect.
The children should experience that their dialect is valued and encouraged.
Michael Piazolo: “Dialects are living cultures that connect the past and the present.
It is an important educational task to cultivate the Bavarian dialects in order to keep this cultural heritage alive.”
According to municipal councilor Michael Hofmann, a corresponding approach in educational practice requires an examination of how many children still speak our traditional Bavarian dialect.
According to the state of linguistics, the area around Dießen can be assigned to the Central Bavarian dialect, a 1,500-year-old dialect group.
According to the applicants, appropriate dialect support measures improve the children's future prospects in a very concrete way.
This results from the "current state of linguistic and cognitive-psychological research".
Michael Hofmann: “Mastering the standard language German and the Bavarian dialect promotes the learning of other languages.
The change from German to Bavarian leads to a change in semantics, which strengthens language skills.” Furthermore, mastering a dialect is considered an integration factor that should not be underestimated.
When asked by the market town council, Mayor Sandra Perzul explained that the kindergarten management and Petra Sander, the spokesperson for child day care, have already been involved in the project and can report promptly.
