I see! This seems to be a problem with several linguistic atlases unfortunately.

For my students, I have found a very nice example for how to use symbology for linguistic variation. Check out this example from the Czech linguistic atlas!

I have one map from her atlas (as an example for point-symbol map). The focus for the upcoming workshop us to show how data can be visualised through various types of maps~

The material include atlases from the German, Dutch, Romance, American, Swiss traditions, with languages ranging from Slavic to Arabic to Irish to Cantonese!

Linguistic Atlas Day

It's that time of year again! Tomorrow, I will be looking at maps from various linguistic atlases around the world with my students, and we will explore how we can visualise dialect data on maps!

Have you spotted any atlases you have worked with before?

We then looked at what 'dialectology' is concerned with and the history of the field. Next week, students will bring in some pics of the linguistic atlases they have discovered in the library (treasure hunting) and we will go from there!

The first workshop of the dialectology series went smoothly! We discussed how what 'dialect' could refer to, and students realised from the discussions that it is not an easy task to distinguish language from dialect, and many factors are involved.

This Friday, I will be giving a talk at the Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars, this time on how dialectometric methods can help us study historical linguistics, with case studies from Indo-European languages.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

In the second half of the series, we will explore how computational methods can help us process more data as well as obtain an understanding of the underlying structure of our dialect data. We will start from popular dialectometric methods to more contemporary ones. 2/2

The series will start from methods in traditional dialectology/ dialect geography. Then we will explore how we can digitise dialect data from physical atlases for further analyses, including synchronic comparison and historical reconstruction. 1/2

*Dialectology/ Dialectometry workshop series*

The upcoming workshop series (for students in the Netherlands) is now open for registration! It starts on the 30th Sept, and there is a workshop every Tuesday until December. More details and register here:
universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2025…

*Dialectology/ Dialectometry workshop series*

The upcoming workshop series (for students in the Netherlands) is now open for registration! It starts on the 30th Sept, and there is a workshop every Tuesday until December. More details and register here:
universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2025…

After years of searching, finally I have found a way to plot a Kombinationskarte or a Honeycomb map (with a little bit of help from ChatGPT) on QGIS! This map allows us to find dialect borders of different strength. Here's an example with Vergeiner's (2025) Aus. German data.

XFiles S1:E6: Scully pops open Praat and Mulder talks about the formants