I lived in the Alsace region of France for awhile and there is a local dialect of German/French there called Alsatian. We used to ride our bikes down the Levee

I lived in the Alsace region of France for awhile and there is a local dialect of German/French there called Alsatian. We used to ride our bikes down the Levee to a village called Le Wantzeneau and get the local version of Pizza from a food truck. The language is, as I've suggested, a weird combination of both French and German, and it seems to be spoken through the nose somewhat. It reminded me a lot of Cajun French, which I heard a lot of as a kid. I'm really for maintaining regional languages. I missed out on a Cajun French revival as a kid but I'm planning on sending my son down for immersion camp. In an era where economies of scale are an overwhelming pressure on culture, maintaining a region's own weird language is kind of rebellion. It calls to mind the Cajun folk hero Dudley LeBlanc who skirted FDA regulation on his bullshit patent medicine (itself merely a way of bypassing the prohibition on alcohol sales) by advertising it on local Cajun French radio stations (which regulators had trouble understanding). Speaking multiple languages is anti-authoritarian!