Description

The acronym VinKo stands for Varieties in Contact, the research project from the Universities of Verona, Trento and Bolzano-Bozen (2018-2022), which laid the foundation for the AlpiLink project. VinKo featured a research infrastructure with the purpose of documenting and analyzing dialects and minority languages in northeastern Italy (regions of Trentino-South Tyrol and Veneto). The varieties in contact were the Tyrolean dialects and the German minority languages Mòcheno, Cimbrian, Saurano and Sappadino on the one hand and the Venetan or Veneto-Lombard and Ladin varieties on the other. The infrastructure included an Internet platform for the collection and representation of linguistic data, a repository for the permanent preservation of data, and various public outreach initiatives, e.g. a project with Venetan secondary schools called VinKiamo.