The Archive for Spoken German (Archiv für Gesprochenes Deutsch, AGD) is a research data centre for corpora of spoken German. It is part of the program area ‘Oral Corpora’ in the pragmatics department of the Leibniz Institute for the German language . The AGD curates corpora from research projects, archives them, and makes them available for reuse in research and teaching.
The MinGLA network was established in 2019 during the Eichstätt conference *“*German and Other Germanic Minority Languages in Latin America: Methods, Fundamentals, Case Studies” (‘Deutsche und weitere germanische Sprachminderheiten in Lateinamerika: Methoden, Grundlagen, Fallstudien’). It aims to connect research on minority Germanic languages in Latin America and is open to anyone working in this field.
The aim of the network is to bring together young researchers working on similar topics in the field of German linguistic minority research. Within this network, workshops, colloquia, lecture series, anthologies and ultimately also joint research proposals can be created.
The MinGLA series serves as a platform for research and international exchange on Germanic-speaking minorities in Latin America. It brings together linguistic perspectives from Romance and Germanic studies (including Scandinavian, Dutch, and Yiddish studies) while also welcoming contributions from related disciplines in the humanities and from transdisciplinary approaches.
The “Minority Languages and Multilingualism” section of the International Society for the Dialectology of German (IGDD) focuses on varieties of German that exist in distinct linguistic and social contexts. At its core, it addresses German-based minority languages across the world and explores their development and research within the framework of close contact with other languages and cultures.