Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun

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The Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun abbreviated, DRG, is the largest dictionary of Rätoromania and describes the Swiss canton of Grisons spoken and written Romansh dialects and written idioms . The term Rumantsch Grischun means 'the Romansh spoken in Graubünden' and should not be confused with the national written language Rumantsch Grischun, which was created at the end of the 20th century .

type

The Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun is, along with the Swiss Idiotikon (Zurich), the Glossaire des patois de la Suisse romande (Neuchâtel) and the Vocabolario dei dialetti della Svizzera italiana (Bellinzona), one of the four national dictionaries and thus one of the multi-volume ones in the scientific one Based on the lexicographical reference works of Switzerland. It documents both the Graubünden Romance local dialects and the five Graubünden Romance script idioms over a period from the 16th century to the present day and also places a strong focus on the description of factual and folkloric conditions. Definition language is German .

History, sponsorship and publishing

The Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun was founded in 1904 by the Societad Retorumantscha, which still functions as a sponsoring association, and the Indo-Europeanist Robert von Planta . With the help of questionnaires, Robert von Planta and Florian Melcher, together with Chasper Pult, collected the basics of the linguistic material that is still the basis for dictionary work today. The second mainstay are excerpts from printed literature, which were taken into account up to the first written works in the early 16th century. The dictionary has been available online since 2018.

The dictionary is published by the Chur- domiciled Institut dal Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun, abbreviated IDRG. Funding is mainly provided by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences , as well as contributions from the Canton of Graubünden and the sale of its own publications.

The Institut dal Dicziunari Rumantsch Grischun not only publishes the dictionary, but also has a comprehensive photo library made up of several collections: The farmhouse research collection includes 7,000 photos of buildings and sketches as well as 100 village plans, the DRG collection 8,000 images on rural culture and the world of work in Graubünden , the Walram Derichsweiler 1600 collection of glass slides on life in the Surselva from 1910 to 1930, the Christian and Hans Meisser collection of 5000 landscape and village photographs from 1895 to 1934, the Alfons Maissen 5000 collection and the Willy Zeller 700 collection of 700 photographs related to the Grisons ; there are also around 300 drawings and sketches of various origins. The photo library was put online in 2014.

publication

  • Volume 1 (A) 1939-1946
  • Volume 2 (B) 1947-1957
  • Volume 3 (C-Cn) 1958-1963
  • Volume 4 (Co-Cy) 1964-1967
  • Volume 5 (D-E) 1968-1972
  • Volume 6 (F) 1973-1985
  • Volume 7 (G) 1979-1985
  • Volume 8 (H-Ine) 1981-1996
  • Volume 9 (Inf-Ip) 1993-1997
  • Volume 10 (Ir-Laz) 1998-2000
  • Volume 11 (Le-Mah) 2001-2004
  • Volume 12 (Mai-Mani) 2005-2009
  • Volume 13 (Manki – Medgiar) 2009–2014
  • Volume 14 (Medi I - Mindarmeinta) 2014–2020

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DRG online. From: drg.ch, accessed on December 9, 2018.
  2. ↑ Photo shop online. From: drg.ch, accessed on September 26, 2017.