US EditionLanguage Research: What the Dialectapp Tells
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With the app "DaBay", researchers try to find out how intensively Bavarian, Franconian and Swabian are still spoken in Bavaria. A realization: The dialect does not die out – but it changes.
High-level language instead of dialect? Scientists want to find out how intensively Bavarian, Franconian and Swabian are still spoken in Bavaria.A DialectApp provides first insights.The creators of the DialectApp "DaBay" collected around one million answers from about 15,000 participants in the past six months. "That's very, very pleasing," says project manager Philip Vergeiner. Together with scientists from the Ludwig Maximilians University (LM…
Over the past six months, the creators of the DialectApp "DaBay" collected around one million answers from around 15,000 participants. "That's very, very pleasing," says Project Manager Philip Vergeiner. Together with scientists from the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich, he is researching how dialects develop in Bavaria. The data from the DialectApp are partly surprising. In some regions of Bavaria, many people still speak pronounce…
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