Atalas of German Dialects in the Czech Republik

The project "Atlas of the historical German dialects in the Czech Republic (ADT)" constitutes an international joint project of scientists and universities in the Czech Republic, in Germany, and in Austria. The immediate aims of the project are: - Research in and documentation of the German dialects in Bohemia and Moravia-Silesia by means of a direct linguistic survey with members of the German language minority, i.e. speakers of German that have not been exiled in 1945/46, and their family members - as far as these are still speakers of the German dialects - Research in Czech influence in and interference with the German dialects, and - by this way - linguistic documentation of almost a millenium of mainly peaceful co-existence of Germans and Czechs As an indirect goal of the project we see the improvement of scientific and - generally - human relations between speakers of German and Czech in the centre of Europe. We believe that unprejudiced research in the German part of the (linguistic) history of the Bohemian lands constitutes an important contribution to the process of tearing down still existing walls of hostility and prejudice, connecting a common past with a common future.

The project "Atlas of the historical German dialects in the Czech Republic (ADT)" constitutes an international joint project of scientists and universities in the Czech Republic, in Germany, and in Austria. The immediate aims of the project are: Research in and documentation of the German dialects in Bohemia and Moravia-Silesia by means of a direct linguistic survey with members of the German language minority, i.e. speakers of German that have not been exiled in 1945/46, and their family members - as far as these are still speakers of the German dialects Research in Czech influence in and interference with the German dialects, and - by this way - linguistic documentation of almost a millenium of mainly peaceful co-existence of Germans and Czechs As an indirect goal of the project we see the improvement of scientific and - generally - human relations between speakers of German and Czech in the centre of Europe. We believe that unprejudiced research in the German part of the (linguistic) history of the Bohemian lands constitutes an important contribution to the process of tearing down still existing walls of hostility and prejudice, connecting a common past with a common future.