Folkish

Folkish

Folkish may refer to:
*"folk" in the sense "of the common people; traditional, unsophisticated", see folk culture, rural.
*the "völkisch movement" of German ethnic nationalism.
*an ethnocentric current in Germanic neopaganism, see neo-völkisch
*the pre-Germanic substrate hypothesis language responsible for 1/3 of proto-Germanic vocabulary

ee also

*Folk (on the word)
*Volk (disambiguation page)
*Vulgar
*Rustic (disambiguation page)
*Folklore


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