Published April 5, 2019 | Version v1
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Data set on linguistic similarity of German dialects

  • 1. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany

Description

- The data provide information on pairwise dialect similarities for 439 NUTS 3 regions in Germany

- Data come from the maps and questionnaires of the Sprachatlas des Deutschen Reichs, digitized using ArcGIS software

- The data source is a questionnaire with translations of standardized German sentences into local dialects between 1879 and 1888

- The measure is defined as the number of co-occurrences for all pairs of sites (z-scaled)

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References

  • Lameli, Alfred (2013): Strukturen im Sprachraum. Analysen zur arealtypologischen Komplexität der Dialekte in Deutschland. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter.