Welcome!

Regionalsprache.de (REDE) is a long-term research project at Marburg's Forschungszentrum Deutscher Sprachatlas that aims to investigate the modern regional languages ​​of German. It is funded by the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur (Mainz).

The creation of the online platform www.regionalsprache.de, a research-centered information system for linguistic geography, is one of the main objectives of the REDE project (project description). The website offers access to

• digitized linguistic atlases
• audio recordings
• Wenkerbogen
• regional-language databases.

The heart of our REDE platform is the application REDE SprachGIS. It allows you

• to access speech maps, audio recordings, Wenkerbogen, and the Georeferenzierte Online-Bibliographie zur Areallinguistik (GOBA),
• to create maps (e.g. by importing and visualizing spatial data records),
• to publish maps online and export map images.

In searching for Wenker surveys, audio recordings, and literature, you can also make use of the catalogues listed on the side bar. There are various step-by-step instructions and helpful texts available for using the REDE SprachGIS. If you have any questions, please contact hilfe@regionalsprache.de.

All applications are continually being enhanced, optimized, and maintained by the project's workgroups, so you will always find new opportunities for your own regional-language research.

The REDE SprachGIS could only be realized because colleagues generously provided us with their research results free of charge. We are most indebted to them!

In order to continue to develop and improve the REDE SprachGIS, we kindly ask all users to point out any possible errors (kontakt@regionalsprache.de).

The project flyer can be downloaded here!