Linguistic Atlas Project

The 800+ targeted questions cover a range of topics, from the house and farm/ranch, to weather, flora and fauna, to food and cooking, and to community relationships.

Fieldworkers wrote down the answers in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), a set of symbols that linguists use to capture pronunciation.

Over time, Kurath's students and other researchers branched out and started regional projects at universities across the U.S. To date, over 5000 interviews have been conducted.

While the project is still working on making all this data digitized and available to the public, there has been a great deal of research produced from what is currently available.

If you are a researcher who is seeking something specific on the Linguistic Atlas Project feel free to reach out to lap at uky.edu.