Peter Honnen (born 1954) is a German linguist and specialist researcher of the languages of the Rhineland.
The institute is run by the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR), a body of municipal self-governance, the main seat of which is in Cologne-Deutz.
That is a simple phonetic script based on the Latin alphabet, specially suited for documenting the languages spoken locally inside the villages, towns, and quarters of the big cities of a wide region of Western Germany from the German lower Rhine area in the North to the Southern Palatinate in the South, and about.
He was a corroborator, or the sole author, of more than 80 dictionaries of some Rhinelandic dialect versus Standard German.
He is the head editor, and project leader, responsible for the Cooperative Dictionary of the Rhinelandic Colloquial Language, that the institute is collecting evidence with to research and document the newest developing features of the Rhinelandic Regiolect from a broad crowd of volunteer sources.