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The app is available for download and use worldwide. Plus, we have just released the project update with improved features for corpus building and group projects. If you would like to use the app for an individual or group project, just let us know.

Map & Info

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Info

Have you ever wondered how many signs you pass on your daily way to work? In which languages these signs are lettered? And how language in public space changes over time? Welcome to Lingscape!

Writing is everywhere in public space. All different kinds of signs and lettering form the linguistic landscape of a place or community. Often these signs display different languages, be they on the same sign or next to each other. Lingscape is an app for researching such linguistic landscapes all over the world. Therefore we collect photos of signs and lettering on an interactive map.

Our main objectives: We want to analyze the diversity and dynamics of public writing. And we want to do that together with people from all over the world.

You can help us to collect as many photos as possible. Upload your own photos or explore the map with all photos added by other users. Share photos you like with your friends. Become a citizen scientist by contributing to the project.

Citizen science meets linguistic landscaping, or short: Lingscape!

Signs

Take photos of signs and lettering in public space! Help us document and analyze language use and visible multilingualism

Map

Explore the map with all photos uploaded by users! Discover polymorphic linguistic landscapes all over the world

Projects

Create your own projects, publish your own maps! Get a personal password to collect photos for your research or a school project

Administration

Build your own corpus! Use the project administration to organize and annotate public or private photo collections

A collaborative story

Tapping together

Backstory

News from the machine room 1

The Lingscape app and project have been around for a while now, since we have published the first edition of the app in fall 2016. Together, we have already collected …

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Screenshots

Home screen with base map

Example of the upload process

Settings screen for projects

What's happening in the project?

Updates

List of recent additions to the language list, new features and updates

Media coverage

List of press coverage appearances and mentionings of the project in the media

Activities

List of project-related outreach activities, publications, and talks

Recent projects

These are some people that are currently working with Lingscape for teaching, research or to document multilingualism in public space. If you want to use the app for your own research project, just let us know. The platform is open for everyone.

Frédédic KarierUniversité du Luxembourg

Streetsigns

BA-Arbeit an er Uni Luxemburg; empirische Untersuchung der pragmatischen Struktur transgressiver Dialoge in Freiburg/Breisgau

Kerstin Trusch, Tom WegenerDeutsche Höhere Schule Windhoek

WINDMAP

School project about language diversity in Windhoek, Namibia

Gerhard Budin, Ludwig Breuer, Barbara Heinisch, Melanie Seltmann, Rebekka Stocker, Esther TopitzWien

IamDiÖ

I am DiÖ führt eine Schnitzeljagd durch Österreich durch. Wir suchen nach Schrift im öffentlichen Raum in verschiedenen Sprachen und Varietäten.

Stats

These basic stats will be updated manually on a weekly basis (data from the app stores only available with 2 to 3 days delay)

4117
Downloads from Apple App Store
1185
Number of active contributors
1345
Downloads from Google Play Store

Our Team

Christoph Purschke
Lingscape officer
ibros.ch
App development
Peter Gilles
Lingscape officer

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You miss a language you want to tag? You would like to use the app for your own research? You are you working on a linguistic landscaping project? Let us know what you think about Lingscape. We are happy to welcome you in the project.

We speak Deutsch, English, Français, Lëtzebuergesch and Plattdüütsch.



Université du Luxembourg
Institut fir lëtzebuergesch Sprooch- a Literaturwëssenschaft
Maison des Sciences Humaines
11, Porte des Sciences
L-4366 Esch/Alzette Luxembourg