According to Tieck, Low Saxon has had little to complain about lately about attention. “You see that more and more music is being made in the language, such as Wat Aans! from Groningen. As a result, young people are also becoming more interested. People are increasingly retreating to ‘the local’ and their own environment in order to form their own identity You can also show that you are unique in the field of regional language.”
The increased interest in regional languages has now also found its way to The Hague. Just before the fall of the cabinet earlier this year, the House of Representatives adopted a motion by Lisa Westerveld (GroenLinks). Together with Martijn Wieling, professor of Low Saxon at the University of Groningen, she called on schools to pay more attention to regional languages and regional language education.
Tieck thinks this is a good development, but is still cautious: “The cabinet has of course fallen, we have to wait and see how this goes. The Huus van de Taol has also been working on a learning path with various agencies from different provinces for a number of years. for the entire language area, but this still needs to be rolled out. In any case, it is important that people see that Low Saxon is still a living language.”