Wisconsin Languages

01/09/2020

Our latest featured story ... the pronunciation of 'bag' in Wisconsin!
https://wep.csumc.wisc.edu/a-bag-of-bagels/

12/01/2019

Wisconsin German Civil War letters ...

By Rachyl Hietpas In the heart of Wisconsin’s Fox River Valley, where using “bubbler” instead of drinking or water fountain is the better-known speech marker, something bigger sets the speech of the area apart: the Dutch language. Dutch has been spoken here for more than 150 years, and some st...

11/02/2019

Tenure-track job at UW–Madison:
https://jobs.hr.wisc.edu/en-us/job/503426/assistant-associate-professor-minority-languages-and-dialectscluster-hire

10/23/2019

New story up on American Norwegian!

By Rachyl Hietpas In the heart of Wisconsin’s Fox River Valley, where using “bubbler” instead of drinking or water fountain is the better-known speech marker, something bigger sets the speech of the area apart: the Dutch language. Dutch has been spoken here for more than 150 years, and some st...

09/18/2019

New article up: Language shift from Finnish to English in northern Wisconsin, by Mirva Johnson. Check it out! https://wep.csumc.wisc.edu

08/17/2019

New feature article on Somali in Wisconsin by Josh Brown! https://wep.csumc.wisc.edu

07/25/2019

Nice story about dialect, featuring Walt Wolfram. https://bittersoutherner.com/with-drawl

07/22/2019

Tomorrow morning, Tuesday, July 23! Professor Cathy Stafford will be talking about Wisconsin heritage languages (6:30-7:00) on The Morning Show, Wisconsin Public Radio.

07/15/2019

New story up, about a digital Ho-Chunk archive as a language learning resource:
https://wep.csumc.wisc.edu/

06/12/2019

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