On Friday 1 September, 16.00-17.00, Prof. Leonie Cornips, endowed professor of Language Culture in Limburg at Maastricht University and the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam, will launch the Dialect App for Eèsjdes (Eijsden dialect) and Mestreechs (Maastricht dialect). You are cordially invited to the launch of the Dialect App, which will take place in the town hall of Eijsden Margraten, Amerikaplein 1, Margraten. Please register via marcellapinckers@eijsden-margraten.nl.
In September 2016, the municipality of Eijsden-Margraten started the ‘Kal Plat’ campaign for dialect and language development. This campaign wants to create awareness for the positive effect of dialect use, without imposing dialect on anyone. With this campaign Eijsden-Margraten intends to show that speaking both Dutch and dialect works very well. For this campaign a series of activities has been organised, among which the development of a Dialect App.
(Web)app
The (web)app for smartphones is created for everyone who wants to learn dialect, want to make his/her dialect heard, and wants to enjoy dialect. The app contains about fifty sentences in Eèsjdes and Mestreechs (presented in dialect, Dutch and English) that are useful for each tourist or visitor. The sentences have been chosen in such a way that they are not only practical for tourists, but also contain a series of linguistic characteristics that are interesting for research purposes.
