Lexicon of Place Names in the Alsatian Dialects
Description
This dataset contains a lexicon of place names in the Alsatian dialects. These place names were collected from several resources and manually categorised according to location types defined in the QUAERO project:
- loc.fac – Facility
- loc.phys.astro – Astronym
- loc.phys.geo – Geonym
- loc.phys.hydro – Hydronym
- loc.adm.nat – Country
- loc.adm.reg – Region
- loc.adm.sup – Supranational
- loc.adm.town – City
- loc.oro – Odonym
The CSV file contains 4 columns:
1. Place name in Alsatian
2. Place name in French
3. Quaero category
4. Source(s): WikiAls (articles from the Alemannic Wikipedia), WikiFr (articles from the French Wikipedia), corpus (Wikipedia articles from the Alemannic Wikipedia and chronicles from an information magazine published by the Haut-Rhin department (southern Alsace) General Council). This field also indicates whether the same spelling can be found in other lexicons of place names for Alsatian: AlsaDico (Edmond Jung. L’alsadico : 22 000 mots et expressions français-alsacien. La
Nuée bleue, Strasbourg, 2006.) and Elsàsser (Marc Hug. Toponymes d’Alsace. Online, http://elsasser.free.fr/
NomCommu/ecrantot.html, 2007.)
The dataset was produced in the context of the RESTAURE project, funded by the French ANR. The lexicon is also decribed in the following article: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01702656.
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AlsatianPlaceNames.csv
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- https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01702656 (URL)