Language Atlas of Lower Bavaria
The Language Atlas of Lower Bavaria (SNiB) presents the linguistic and geographical conditions of the Bavarian dialects in Lower Bavaria . The SNiB is a sub-project of the Bavarian Language Atlas and is being developed at the University of Passau . It stands in the tradition of the Upper German small area language atlases, the methodology of which was first developed by the language atlas of German-speaking Switzerland .
method
Study area
Before the regional reform, the administrative region of Lower Bavaria comprised 907 independent municipalities, after that it was still 258. The study area was divided into grid squares with sides 7 km, from each of which a location was selected for the survey. A reduced city questionnaire was used for cities.
Between 1991 and 1998 221 local surveys were carried out, 201 of them with the main questionnaire, eight with the city questionnaire and twelve location surveys with a short questionnaire.
Question book and survey
In the preparatory phase from 1989 to 1991, sample surveys were carried out, the results of which were incorporated into the main questionnaire. The questionnaire is divided into subject areas, e.g. B .: The cattle and their care , haymaking , agriculture , wagons , wood , the weather . The questionnaire includes a total of 2325 individual questions.
The answers were written down in a differentiated phonetic transcription ( Teuthonista ), which precisely records the subtleties of the pronunciation.
In the places where the glassmaking trade has a tradition in the past or still today, a question book was used to ask about the specialist glassmaking vocabulary.
publication
About half of the collected material is processed and published in atlas form. All seven volumes have now been published.
The Chair of German Linguistics has completed the language atlas for Lower Bavaria: "iatz hammas" (high German "it is accomplished").
- Volume 1: H.-W. Eroms, B. Röder, R. Spannbauer-Pollmann: Introductory volume with syntax evaluation. Winter, Heidelberg 2006
- Volume 2: R. Spannbauer-Pollmann: Word Geography I: Man and his environment. Winter, Heidelberg 2003
- Volume 3: S. Ritt-Stadler, R. Spannbauer-Pollmann: Lautgeographie: Vocalism. Winter, Heidelberg 2010
- Volume 4: E. Holzer: Lautgeographie: Konsonantismus. Winter, Heidelberg 2005
- Volume 5: G. Koch: Geography of Forms I: Verbum. Winter, Heidelberg 2007
- Volume 6: A. Dicklberger: Word Geography II: Draft Animals, Means of Transport, Forest and Wood. Winter, Heidelberg 2006
- Volume 7: G. Meier: Geography of Forms: Nouns. Winter, Heidelberg 2008
Side projects
syntax
In this side project, the linguistic-geographical relationships in the syntax were researched. The syntax was queried for every second location survey. An evaluation and mapping of the 13 documented grammatical phenomena is published in the introductory volume to the language atlas of Lower Bavaria.
Dictionary of Lower Bavaria
Another side project is the planned dictionary of Lower Bavaria , in which a selection from the collected vocabulary should be offered, especially those expressions that were additionally written down during the surveys for the language atlas, i.e. expressions that were not included in the questionnaire itself.
The Speaking Language Atlas of Lower Bavaria
This side project is an acoustic language atlas for which digital tape recordings with a questionnaire comprising 720 questions were carried out at 207 locations. From this, 110 expressions were selected for the first version of the Speaking SNiB . The Speaking SNiB was published on CD in 2004.
Location and field name research
In the Lower Bavaria region, there is currently no systematic, comprehensive survey of place and field names. So far, only individual site investigations exist. In a two-year project funded by the EU is financed and the University of Passau, the dialectal pronunciation is local , hallway , water pollution and house names in sound recordings in the counties of Freyung-Grafenau and rain as well as in the adjacent Sumava collected.