Research on Geolinguistic Linked Data: The Test Case of Cimbrian Varieties

In this paper, we present a geolinguistic linked open data approach of a multidisciplinary and collaborative project, "Cimbrian as a test case for synchronic and diachronic language variation", which provides linguists with a test bed for formal hypotheses concerning human language. Aims of the project are to collect, digitize and tag linguistic data from the German dialect varieties of Cimbrian - spoken in three areas of northern Italy: Giazza (province of Verona), Luserna (province of Trento), and Asiago/Roana (province of Vicenza) - and to make available on-line a valuable and innovative linguistic resource for the in-depth study of Cimbrian.