Current Projects

The project has collected recording of the fable The North Wind and the Sun ("Nordwind und Sonne") in 76 Swiss dialects. You can listen to the recordings on the website (available in German) and additionally read the accompanying parallel text. 

The following dialects are currently available:

• 42 Alemannic dialects
• 10 Romansh dialects (all five idioms are represented)
• 10 Lombard dialects from the cantons Ticino and southern Grisons
• 6 Patois (Franco-Provencal und French)
• 1 Tyrolean dialect (from Samnaun, canton of Grisons)

The record "ZLDI 2: Dialetti Svizzeri. Mesolcina GR: Mesocco, Cama, Roveredo GR" contains eight recordings of Italian spoken in Grisons, which were made by Peter Camastral in 1969-1970. At the time, the audio recordings were published without transcriptions. It is time to fill this gap and republish the recordings together with their phonetic and orthographic transcriptions as well as a (standard) Italian translation. Camilla Bernardasci is responsible for this project.

The following eight recordings are featured in the publiation:

1. Mesocco, Passato e presente (25'16'')
2. Mesocco, Paura di altri tempi (3'41'')
3. Mesocco, Tognino e Carlino (2'10'')
4. Cama, Il nostro dialetto (3'46'')
5. Cama, Tognino e Carlino (2'07'')
6. Roveredo, Il morto risuscitato (3'59'')
7. Roveredo, E un'altra volta... (3'09'')
8. Roveredo, Tognino e Carlino (2'33'')

From our first recordings in 1909 to the present day, a wide variety of recording systems and sound carriers have been used. For several years now, we have been working on digitising all of the archive's sound recordings so that these unique documents will also be available to future generations.

To achieve this goal, we have collaborated in part with our sister institutions in  Austria (Phonogrammarchiv der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften) and Germany (Lautarchiv der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). As a result, we have already been able to digitise almost all of the preserved gramophone recordings from 1909 to 1932 as well as publish some of them.

We are continuously working on digitising our archive holdings and improving their accessibility. We are currently working on digitising our paper holdings.