VinKo - Varietäten im Kontakt/Varietà in Contatto/Varieties in Contact

VinKo ('Varieties in Contact') is a crowdsourcing website aiming to gather numerically relevant information about the minority languages and dialects spoken in the area between Innsbruck and the Po Valley. The VinKo Project was originally launched in 2014-15 within a larger project funded by the European Union (AThEME), which aimed at investigating multilingualism from different angles. In the past two years, VinKo has been upgraded and enhanced within the Project of Excellence on digital humanities at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (University of Verona) and within the PRIN project "TREiL", Technologies for Research and Education in Linguistics at CIMEC/DIPSCO (University of Trento). The main focus of the VinKo team are the local languages and varieties spoken in the regions Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Veneto, with particular focus on the so-called language-contact' between Germanic (Cimbrian, Mocheno, Tyrolean) and Romance (Ladin, Trentino and Veneto dialects).

Reference: Patrizia Cordin & Stefan Rabanus & Birgit Alber & Antonio Mattei & Jan Casalicchio & Alessandra Tomaselli & Ermenegildo Bidese & Andrea Padovan (2018): VinKo, Versione 2 (20.12.2018, 09:20). In: Korpus im Text, Serie A, 13739. http://www.kit.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/?p=13739&v=2.