The Digital Humanities Lab, together with a group of researchers from Utrecht University and Fryske Akademy, launched the Frisian dialects application to collect Frisian language data in an online experiment in the form of a game. The Frisian dialects application, built by developer Ben Bonfil, tests the knowledge of language variation within Frisia (Northern part

The Digital Humanities Lab relaunches the ‘Dutch Dialect Idioms’ database, developed by linguists from Utrecht University and KU Leuven. This is a renewed version of an online database of idioms in 13 Dutch dialects. Idioms are special, linguistically speaking, because they have a meaning that does not follow from their parts: when someone ‘kicked the