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The register
Six of the fourteen people we have recorded so far. We do not call anyone “the last
speaker” — several of them would be annoyed, and at least two of them are wrong about
each other.
Ternaard · eleven hours on tape
Rients
Four of those hours are about eel traps and one is him telling us the
machine was running badly.
Holwert · came to us
Tryntsje
Came to us rather than the other way round, with a list of words
she said nobody had asked her about.
Blije · recorded by phone
Maaike
Speaks it only on the phone to one cousin, which is the recording
we ended up using.
Wiel · reads the old spelling
Douwe
The only one of the fourteen who can read the old spelling, and he
disagrees with it.
Nij Altoenae · youngest fluent
Sjoukje
The youngest fluent speaker we have found in four years of
looking, which tells you most of the story.
Broeksterwâld · learned it back
Jelle
Learned it back deliberately as an adult. We record him separately
and label it as such.
What happens to a recording
This is the part that matters more than the podcast does, so it is on the
front page rather than in a policy nobody opens.
The voice stays theirs
Every speaker keeps the right to withdraw any recording, in whole or in part, at
any time and without giving a reason. Three have done it. Those episodes are gone
from the feed and from the archive copy, and we do not keep a private version.
Where it is deposited
A copy goes to the provincial language archive with the consent form attached, and
one stays with the family. We are not the owner of any of this; we are the people
who happened to bring a recorder.
What we cut
Names of living third parties, anything about money, and anything said after
somebody says “not that bit”. We do not tidy grammar, we do not correct
pronunciation, and we leave the pauses in.
If somebody in your family still says it that way
We will come to them, not the other way round. It takes an afternoon, there is no
camera, and nothing is published without a signature on paper afterwards — not
before. If they change their mind at the kitchen table, that is the end of it and we
will have had a nice cup of tea.
Get in touch
Who makes it
Two people, one recorder and a car. Nobody is paid. The provincial archive covers
the tape and the transcription; everything else is unfunded.
Transcripts
Every episode has one, in the old spelling and the new, because the two camps
will not use each other’s. Both are free to download.
What we keep about you
Nothing. There is no tracking on this page, no newsletter and no account. If you
write to us we keep the letter and that is all.
Spraak
Spraak is a fictional example. The speakers, the villages, the episodes
and the archive do not exist, and the names are invented. Photographs are stock images
and do not show any of the people described.