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The ''Atlas linguistique de la France'' (ALF, Linguistic Atlas of France) is an influential
dialect atlas A linguistic map is a thematic map showing the geographic distribution of the speakers of a language, or isoglosses of a dialect continuum of the same language, or language family. A collection of such maps is a linguistic atlas. The earliest su ...
of Romance varieties in France published in 13 volumes between 1902 and 1910 by
Jules Gilliéron Jules Gilliéron (21 December 1854 – 26 April 1926) was a Swiss-French linguist and dialectologist. From 1883 until his death, he taught dialectology at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. In 1887, he co-founded the ''Revue des pato ...
and Edmond Edmont. Whereas
Georg Wenker Georg Wenker (January 25, 1852 – July 17, 1911) was a German linguist who began documenting German dialect geography during the late nineteenth century. He is considered a pioneer in this field and contributed several groundbreaking publica ...
had used postal questionnaires to compile his pioneering ''Sprachatlas des deutschen Reichs'' in 1888, Gilliéron employed a fieldworker, Edmond Edmont. Between 1896 and 1900, Edmont conducted 700 interviews at 639 locations throughout the countryside of France, southern Belgium, western Switzerland, the Channel Islands, and the Aosta Valley and the Occitan Valleys of Piedmont in Italy, using a questionnaire of over 1,500 items devised and continually revised by Gilliéron. The results were collated and analysed by Gilliéron and his assistants. Gilliéron's survey stimulated interest in dialect geography, and became the model for later works elsewhere. Two of his students,
Karl Jaberg Karl Jaberg (4 April 1877, in Langenthal – 30 May 1958, in Bern) was a Swiss linguist and dialectologist. He studied Romance philology at the University of Bern, and furthered his education in Paris (1900/01), where his influences include ...
and
Jakob Jud Jakob Jud u:t(12 January 1882 in Wängi, Kanton Thurgau – 15 June 1952 in Seelisberg, Kanton Uri) was a Swiss Romance linguist ( Romanist). From 1922 to 1950 he taught classes in Romance philology and Old French literature at the Universi ...
, directed a survey of Italian dialects of Italy and southern Switzerland, published as the ''Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz'' (1928–1940). Jud and one of his fieldworkers helped to train fieldworkers for the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada project, which produced the ''
Linguistic Atlas of New England The ''Linguistic Atlas of New England'' (LANE), edited by Hans Kurath in collaboration with Miles L. Hanley, Bernard Bloch, Guy S. Lowman, Marcus L. Hansen and Julia Bloch, is a book of linguistic maps describing the dialects of New England in t ...
'' (1939–1940), the ''
Linguistic Atlas of the Upper Midwest The ''Linguistic Atlas of the Upper Midwest'' (LAUM), directed by Harold B. Allen, is a series of linguistic maps describing the dialects of the American Upper Midwest. LAUM consists of 800 maps over three volumes, with a map for each linguistic i ...
'' (1973–1976) and the ''
Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States The ''Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States'', edited by Lee Pederson, is a linguistic map describing the dialect The term dialect (from Latin , , from the Ancient Greek word , 'discourse', from , 'through' and , 'I speak') can refer to either ...
'' (1986–1992).


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''Atlas linguistique de la France''
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