A language lost. The case of Leeg Duits (Low Dutch)

Abstract

Few readers will be surprised to learn that the Dutch language was still used in North America aft er the year 1664, when governor Petrus Stuyvesant had to surrender the Dutch colony of Nieuw-Nederland (New Netherland), including the city of Nieuw Amsterdam (which later on became New York), to the English. Less widely known is the fact that spoken Dutch remained in use far longer th an people generally assume , continuing into the fi rst decades of the twentieth century, when its very last speakers died. Th e production of literary texts in this American

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