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tommus
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Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish

 
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24 November 2012 at 11:45pm | IP Logged 
Today is the 30th anniversary of the Dictionary of Newfoundland English. At least one other Canadian province has its own dictionary: The Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English. Having been born and brought up in PEI, I have a copy of the PEI dictionary.

Dictionary of Newfoundland English (video)

Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English

I imagine there are lots of other regional dictionaries of English and of other languages.



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Medulin
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25 November 2012 at 1:53am | IP Logged 
I've been to St. John's many times (my uncle lives there) and no one speaks the dialect anymore. All ''townies'' sound exactly like Rick Mercer.
So, the Newfi dialect is no more in and around St. John's, unfortunately...

I have a dictionary of Baiano Brazilian Portuguese (from the state of Bahia),
and Jujuy and Salta Argentine Spanish. ;)

About the Dicionario de baianês:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLyS_86Ynsw

I need to get me a Bavarian dictionary next time I'm in Munich.

Edited by Medulin on 25 November 2012 at 1:55am

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Chung
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25 November 2012 at 7:53am | IP Logged 
One the delights of learning foreign languages or experiencing them in the flesh as I travel through places where they're used is to come upon forms that are non-standard but most remarkable for being associated with a certain geographical space (as opposed to a certain age group or profession).

Here are the online resources for my target languages (past and present) that I've come upon so far.

BCMS/SC
Istarski rječnik (Istrian dictionary - focused on the Chakavian dialects of a peninsula in western Croatia)
Mali rječnik zagrebačkog slenga (Small dictionary of Zagrebian slang)
Nišlijski rečnik (dictionary of words typical or characteristic of people living in Niš, Serbia)

Czech
1. internetový slovník: moravsko-český (Moravian-Czech dictionary)

Czech/Polish
Teshen Silesian (short sketch with lists of vocabulary of transitional language/dialect used on a small section of the Czech-Polish border)

Estonian
Väike murdesõnastik (Small Dictionary of Dialectal Forms)

Finnish
Suomi-slangi sanastot (Finnish-(Helsinkian) slang glossaries (also indicating in which decade of the 20th century a particular item was common)
Suomi-savo-sanakirja (Finnish-Savonian dictionary - a phrasebook rather than a dictionary)

Hungarian
Siklódi Székely - Magyar szótár (Székely (Siklód subdialect) - Hungarian dictionary)
Székely-magyar szótár a mesékhez (Székely-Hungarian dictionary for understanding fairy tales)
Vajdasági magyar-magyar szótár (Vojvodinan Hungarian - Hungarian dictionary)

Polish
Wiślan - Słownik mowy krakowskiej (Dictionary of Kraków's speech)
Słownik śląski (Silesian - Polish dictionary)
Słownik gwary warszawskiej (Dictionary of Warsaw's speech)
Słowniczek gwary poznańskiej (Short word list for Poznań's speech)
Gwary - Szablony (assorted word lists on Wiktionary of regionalisms from several Polish regions/cities)

Slovak
Slovenské nárečia a dialekty (online database of regionalisms)


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