Working maps

Sprachatlas der Deutschen Schweiz (SDS) | SADS

On this web site, you can find digitized maps of the Swiss German dialect atlas SDS (Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz).

Version 3

Version 3 contains 62 additional maps, digitized by Roy Weiss (University of Zurich, 2013-2014). Part of these maps replace or amend existing digitized maps from version 2. The version 3 maps are available for download as ArcGIS shapefiles as well as tab-separated raw text files. The documentation contains information about the selected variables and variants.

Version 3 was presented in the publication below. If you use the data, please cite our work as follows:

  • Yves Scherrer & Philipp Stoeckle (2016): “A quantitative approach to Swiss German – Dialectometric analyses and comparisons of linguistic levels.” Dialectologia et Geolinguistica, 24(1), 92-125.

Version 2

For version 2, 19 additional maps were digitized, and 11 maps of version 1 were corrected and amended. This work was done by Sandra Kellerhals (University of Zurich) between 2013 and 2014. The version 2 maps are available for download as ArcGIS shapefiles as well as tab-separated raw text files. The documentation contains information about the selected variables and variants.

Version 1

Version 1 consists in a data set of 216 working maps. They have been compiled and digitized by Yves Scherrer between 2009 and 2012. There are 65 working maps on phonetics and phonology (SDS volumes 1 and 2), 115 maps on morphosyntax (SDS volume 3) and 36 maps on lexical phenomena (SDS volumes 4 to 8).

The working maps are available for download as ArcGIS shapefiles. The documentation contains information about the selected variables and variants.