Abstract
The DIALEKT corpus presents traditional regional dialects captured over the entire Czech Republic. The dialect material was acquired by transcribing sound recordings coming from all dialectal regions of the Czech Republic.
Additionally, several probes were recorded in Poland. The corpus is composed of two levels.
The older dialectal level contains recordings which were made in the period from the end of the 1950s until the 1980s. The newer level contains probes covering the period from the 1990s until the present.
For both layers, we have language data which capture archaic dialectal elements which do not generally occur in the present day usage. The first version of the dialect corpus contains approx. 100 000 words and will gradually expand.
We assume that it will serve not only for specialists (dialectologists, other linguists and researchers from related fields) but also for example as a practical learning aid for high schools and universities. In the future, it should also be supplemented with interactive maps with dialectal features from the individual regional dialects, excerpts from transcripts and recordings from selected locations, and other useful additions.