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Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea

• Germany
• Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg
• Collection
• Running

The systematic research into the Ethiopian manuscript culture is the aim of the long-term project “Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung” (“Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea”). Ethiopia and Eritrea are situated, from the perspective of cultural history, both at the periphery of the so-called Christian Orient and in the…

AGATE-ID: PR14

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Regionalsprache.de (REDE). Ein Forschungsprojekt zu den modernen Regionalsprachen des Deutschen

• Germany
• Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
• Collection
• Running

The objective of the project is to remedy two of the most serious desiderata from the long history of the research of the German language:

1. The German dialects have been investigated intensively for 180 years (Schmeller 1821). For the “modern regional languages”, i.e. the linguistic variation areas, which present the spoken everyday language of most of the members of the linguistic community in…

AGATE-ID: PR255

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Schweizerisches Idiotikon – Wörterbuch der schweizerdeutschen Sprache

• Switzerland
• Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Dictionary
• Running

The Swiss Idioticon is an institute for the research and documentation of the German language and its dialects in Switzerland. Its main task is the development of the dictionary of the Swiss-German language (Swiss Idiotikon) in printed and digital form. This work describes Alemannic vocabulary in Switzerland from the late Middle Ages to the 21st century. It is the largest regional dictionary in…

AGATE-ID: PR318

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