Hi Boris,
Thanks for your reply, both to my and to Mark's messages. There is however one thing I might disagree with you.
You compared the rural community of Seeltersk speakers with the Hopi people and pointed out that "Wat de boer niet kent, dat (vr)eet hij niet" (this proverb is also known in Dutch). Of course they are generally conservative; indeed, the conservative nature of the Saterfrisians might have saved the language from extinction for centuries! But you might forget that the world is changing, and that even rural areas, at least in Western Europe, become completely emancipated: a farmer is no longer someone whose world ends with the borders of his farmyard. At least some of them must be willing to join the project (elder people get increasingly connected to the internet ;-)), and quite all of them are nowadays aware of the unique status of their language and the necessity to preserve it and to promote it outside their own community.
Moreover, there are nowadays many youngsters who know the language. Not from their parents, who mostly raised them in Low Saxon with only very few exceptions, but at school (in the 90s schools started projects to learn their pupils Seelters), or from (one of) their grandparents, and they use it as a second language, maybe sometimes even as a first language (cf. similar movemens on the Isle of Man, or in French Flanders). These people can very well be persuated to join the project.
Wouter
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