dialect – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Wed, 15 Nov 2023 14:19:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg dialect – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Map of British English Dialects https://www.maproomblog.com/2023/11/map-of-british-english-dialects/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 14:19:40 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1820194 More]]> Map of British English Dialects by Starkey ComicsStarkey Comics’s Map of British English Dialects took Ryan ages to research. “The end result is an image which is, to my knowledge, the most detailed map of British dialects ever made. But it is still very much unfinished, and it always will be.” The rest of his post is a careful litany of caveats about what constitutes a dialect, whether it’s geographically specific and whether its boundaries can be sharply defined. “So yes, this map may be unsatisfying, arbitrary, and unfinished, and no amount of work on it will really change that. It exists mainly as a testament to the huge dialectal diversity of the English language within the UK, and as a way for me to express my fascination and love for that diversity.” [LanguageHat]

]]> 1820194 Mapping the Decline of English Dialects https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/06/mapping-the-decline-of-english-dialects/ Wed, 01 Jun 2016 14:39:02 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=2099 More]]> english-dialects-arm

Using a mobile app launched last January (iPhone, Android), similar to the one used to study Swiss German dialect usage, Cambridge researchers have amassed a huge dataset of English language usage and are using it to map the decline in regional dialect words and pronunciations. [The Telegraph]

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