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Cartography in Central and Eastern Europe pp 361–382Cite as

Mapping and Analysing the Local Language Areas for Slovenian Linguistic Atlas

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The aim of our study is a detailed determination of the local speeches areas which are parts of the Slovenian Linguistic Atlas (SLA). The SLA is a geolinguistic project designed in the 1930s with its publishing expected in 2010. One of the goals of this subproject is to analyse the impact areas and to geographically allocate the local speeches for a more precise determination of the isoglosses. This will consequently enable a better understanding of the nature of a particular speech. Various evidences that influenced formation of the particular speech have been analysed with the geographic information system (GIS). The evidences are intra- and extra-linguistic indicators, i.e. geographic and historic. The allocation of the speeches has been generated through the innovative variables, which describe potential delimitations considering geographic criteria with help of the database of settlements in Slovenia. Further study is going to develop twofold: The first is the continuation of the research in dialectometry, and the second is to support these statements with spatial modelling and simulations. The developed methodology could be implemented to the wider areas in Central Europe.

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  • geolinguistics
  • dialectometry
  • digital terrain model
  • boundaries modeling
  • Slovenian Linguistic Atlas

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  1. Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy for Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Tomaž Podobnikar, Jožica Škofic & Mojca Horvat

  2. Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Tomaž Podobnikar

  3. School of Environmental Sciences, University of Nova Gorica, Gorica, Slovenia

    Tomaž Podobnikar

  4. Faculty of Humanities Koper, University of Primorska, Titov trg 5, SI-6000 Koper, Primorska, Slovenia

    Jožica Škofic

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  2. Inst. Geoinformation und Kartographie, TU Wien, Erzherzog-Johannplatz 1, Wien, 1040, Austria

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Podobnikar, T., Škofic, J., Horvat, M. (2009). Mapping and Analysing the Local Language Areas for Slovenian Linguistic Atlas. In: Gartner, G., Ortag, F. (eds) Cartography in Central and Eastern Europe. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03294-3_23

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