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2009
by the University of Kansas
Linguistic Atlas of Kansas German Dialects
From J. Neale Carman's Foreign Language Units of Kansas, Part 1.
Historical Atlas and Statistics. 1962.
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Project Goals:
- Collect and preserve samples of spoken German in Kansas
- Identify the major characteristics that differentiate the many varieties of German spoken in Kansas
- Present maps to show where German was/and is still spoken in Kansas
- Digitize samples of recordings and make them available through WWW access.
Principal Investigators at the University of Kansas:
Other Principal Investigators:
- Gabi Lunte, PhD - Washburn University
- Michael Putnam, PhD - Michigan State University
- Jörg Meindl, PhD - Lebanon Valley College
- Other Contributors
We thank our sponsors:
Max Kade Center for German-American Studies
KU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Kansas Humanities Council
DaimlerChrysler
Last Updated August 19, 2009