The ‘Digital Low German Atlas for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (DiNA-MV)’ (Digitaler Niederdeutsch-Atlas für Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) comprises dialect maps that present the central dialectal characteristics of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomeranian dialects for a dense network of locations and several speakers per location. The focus is thus on the diversity of the language with regard to, for example, the gender and generation of the people in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, but also with a view to the dynamics in the context of urbanity and rural areas. To this end, language recordings from 20th century surveys and from the recent research projects ‘Sprachvariation in Norddeutschland (SiN)’ and ‘Regionalsprache.de (REDE)’ are processed and analysed.

The digitally published, interactive atlas presents the results supplemented by audio samples and map commentaries, which enable low-threshold access and an intuitive impression of the regional language. At the same time, the atlas records the situational and intergenerationally observed language variation and thus documents the stability and change in the dialects of the federal state. The atlas is published in the technical environment of the ‘Regionalsprache.de (REDE)’ project.