Maps of Frisian, Western
Dutch Dialect Areas: perception and production data combined
Dutch Dialect Areas: perception and production data combined
Source: Lameli, Alfred, Roland Kehrein, and Stefan Rabanus (eds.) 2010. Language and space: language mapping: an international handbook of linguistic variation. Handbooks of linguistics and communication science, 30:2. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Data Source: Daan, Jo, and D. P. Blok. 1969. Von Randstad tot Landrand. Bijdragen en Mededelingender Dialecten Commissie van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam. 37. Amsterdam: NoordHollandsche Uitgevers.
Contact: De Gruyter Mouton
Date Digitized: 24-Jun-2011
Map Description:
This map (Daan and Blok, 1969) uniquely presents both production and perception of Dutch dialects, using data collected in 1939. Like other dialect maps, it displays the different dialects produced, shown by area borders and differing labels, but it also uses the colour spectrum as a tool to represent the perceptions of local speakers. The colours for each area were intuitively selected to represent how similar local speakers thought dialects were in respect to each other; if different areas are similar in colour, this shows that speakers thought the dialects spoken in these areas were similar. The dutch labels for each dialect area can be checked on as a separate layer on this map.
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The UNESCO Database of Endangered Languages (UNESCO)
The UNESCO Database of Endangered Languages
Map Creator:
LINGUIST List (Anthony Aristar)
Data Source: Mosely Christopher. 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. Paris, UNESCO Publishing, Online version. http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/ (29 November 2010)
Contact: llmap
linguistlist.org
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Used by Permission
Date Created: 29 November 2010
Map Description:
UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is a database intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level.
Degrees of endangerment
The map designates the degrees of endangerment as based on UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment framework.
This establishes six degrees of vitality/endangerment based on nine factors. Of these factors, the most salient is that of intergenerational transmission.
Data Source: Mosely Christopher. 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. Paris, UNESCO Publishing, Online version. http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/ (29 November 2010)
Contact: llmap
linguistlist.org
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Used by Permission
Date Created: 29 November 2010
Map Description:
UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is a database intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level.
Degrees of endangerment
The map designates the degrees of endangerment as based on UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment framework.
This establishes six degrees of vitality/endangerment based on nine factors. Of these factors, the most salient is that of intergenerational transmission.
| Degree of endangerment | Intergenerational Language Transmission | safe | language is spoken by all generations; intergenerational transmission is uninterrupted >> not included in the map |
|---|---|
| vulnerable | most children speak the language, but it may be restricted to certain domains (e.g., home) |
| definitely endangered | children no longer learn the language as mother tongue in the home |
| severely endangered | language is spoken by grandparents and older generations; while the parent generation may understand it, they do not speak it to children or among themselves |
| critically endangered | the youngest speakers are grandparents and older, and they speak the language partially and infrequently |
| extinct | there are no speakers left >> included in the Atlas if presumably extinct since the 1950s |
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