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The Challenges of Ethnolinguistic Cartography

The paper seeks to show how contemporary digital mapping methods enable the linkage of data collected for linguistic and ethnological atlases. Although data in many European countries were collected simultaneously, the methodology and research procedures were usually significantly different. Much of the material collected for the language atlas refers to ethnologically relevant terms, of course, only at the lexical level. Having worked for many years at the international ALE (Atlas Linguarum Europae) project, I have noticed that in the collected language material a lot of data relevant for the onomassiological and motivational analysis is missing. On the other hand, the relevant information often could be found among the data collected for ethnological atlases. The analysis of data for the term ʻgraveʼ and ʻcemeteryʼ collected for ALE will show how useful it could be to integrate and compare the data collected within these two disciplines.

linguistic geography, ethnocartography, European Linguistic Atlas

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