ViNoRHM 2.0 Visibilizing Normative Regional Historical Multilingualism: The North Frisian Element

Samantha M. Litty (Institute for Frisian Studies and Minority Research) received DFG funding (Sachbeihilfe – Eigene Stelle, Project number: 513246485) for a second 3-year funding period, slated to begin 1 September 2026. ViNoRHM 2.0 (Visibilizing Normative Regional Historical Multilingualism: The North Frisian Element) builds on work conducted in the first 3-year funding period (ViNoRHM 1.0: Ideology, Policy, Practice; DFG Sachbeihilfe – Eigene Stelle January 2023- January 2026). The latter offered a new approach to multilingual regional language histories by reframing narratives surrounding multilingual societies and everyday language use in the Danish-German border region in the 19^th century. ViNoRHM 2.0 expands that work to focus on North Frisia (Nordfriesland), which is embedded in the region’s linguistic diversity (High German, Standard Danish, and (varieties of) North Frisian, Low German, and South Jutish). The project highlights intricacies of navigating daily language use in a minority language context by examiningwritings created by everyday writers in informal contexts, and it considers supplemental data from experienced, well-known, or influential NF writers who wrote NF texts in more formal contexts, e.g., for local periodicals with a ‘local or regional’ focus. Particular attention is paid to the role of women in this historical and minority language constellation, in an attempt to visibilize their impact on the region’s cultural and linguistic history. Those interested in more information should visit: https://www.uni-flensburg.de/vinorhm. EUF students – at any level - interested in joining the ViNoRHM team should contact samantha.litty-TextEinschliesslichBindestricheBitteEntfernen-@uni-flensburg.de.