Agnė Čepaitienė, Danguolė Mikulėnienė. Tarmynas – the model of Lithuanian local language variants database: collecting, searching and applying geolinguistic data

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Agnė Čepaitienė, Danguolė Mikulėnienė. Tarmynas – the model of Lithuanian local language variants database: collecting, searching and applying geolinguistic data
Study. Vilnius: Institute of the Lithuanian Language, 2022. ISBN 978-609-411-316-1, doi.org/10.35321/e-pub.40.tarmynas-geolingvistikos-portalas.

The study introduces the Geographic Information Systems-based Lithuanian Local Language Variant Database, or Tarmynas: it briefly introduces the basis of Tarmynas – the Dialect Archive from the Research Centre of Geolinguistics at the Institute of the Lithuanian Language, and, taking into account the theoretical foundations of Tarmynas, it also discusses its structure and the possibilities of collecting, analysing, and disseminating the data provided by Tarmynas.

The study is illustrated with a large amount of heterogeneous material from Tarmynas: audio recordings, texts written in the international phonetic alphabet, original and unedited material from the Atlas of the Lithuanian Language, linguists’ handwritten manuscripts, photographs of advertisements, signboards, cemeteries, socio-economic and socio-cultural data, samples of questionnaires on sociolinguistic and perceptive dialectology, etc. These are linguistic, linguistic landscape and attitude-related data useful for both traditional and multimodal dialectology.

Tarmynas is available on the Geolinguistics Portal (https://maps.lki.lt/).