Cooperative Dictionary Of The Rhinelandic Colloquial Language
The Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR), a public body of municipal self governance of the Rhineland in West of North Rhine-Westphalia in Western Germany, runs a project they call Cooperative Dictionary of the Rhinelandic Colloquial Language, or Mitmachwörterbuch der rheinischen Umgangssprache in German. It is a means of linguistic research, organizationally and scientifically under the auspices of the Bureau of Research and Documentation of the Rhineland, in German Amt für rheinische Landeskunde (ARL).
The Project started an interactive world wide web site towards the end of February 2007, although it had been publicly announced in 2005 already to become available in fall 2006. The technical aspects of the site are handled by an external contractor. Content and conceptual matters are handled directly by the ARL.
The website both documents and collects data on the current colloquial language use in the Rhineland region, where some 15 million speakers live. They are using a quite distinct variety of German when speaking colloquially. This project is the first of its kind replacing interwievs with individual speakers, or questionnaires, by an interactive web application quasi anonymously collecting scientific evidence about a contemporary language.
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