====== 1.2.4 Languages and varieties ======

===== Languages and varieties per chat =====
In order to assign a language tagging to each chat, we looked at the first 250 messages and assigned two possible attributes per language:

  * lang_100_and_more: Languages that were found in more than 100 messages
  * lang_less_than_100: Languages that were less frequent

for the following languages:
  * fra: French
  * ita: Italian
  * roh: Any variety of Romansh
  * gsw: dialectal German as used in Switzerland
  * deu: non-dialectal German
  * eng: English
  * spa: Spanish
  * sla: Any Slavic language

Please note: In the browsing tool ANNIS, we created sub-corpora per language, where each message appears in one and only one sub-corpus. In most cases, this it the language that delivers more than 100 chats. If there are two languages providing more than 100 messages, we arbitrarily prioritized the languages: ROH > GSW > FRA > DEU > ITA > ENG/SPA/SLA.

If you want to work with all chats that contain a specific language in more than 100 messages, use the query ''msg & meta::lang_100_and_more="fra, gsw"'' on the whole corpus.

For an overview over languages and varieties in the corpus consult:
Ueberwasser, Simone; Stark, Elisabeth (2017): "What’s up, Switzerland? A corpus-based research project in a multilingual country". In: Linguistik online, 84/5, 105-126. https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/3849/5834


===== Languages and varieties per message =====
The information of the main language of a message is saved in the annotation //most_likely_lang// and can thus be queried with e.g. ''most_likely_lang="gsw"''.

Available languages:
  * fra: French
  * ita: Italian
  * roh: Any variety of Romansh
  * gsw: dialectal German as used in Switzerland
  * deu: non-dialectal German
  * eng: English
  * spa: Spanish
  * sla: Any Slavic language

Romansh varieties:

  * roh-ja: Jauer Romansh
  * roh-sr: romontsch sursilvan
  * roh-st: rumàntsch sutsilvan
  * roh-sm: rumantsch surmiran
  * roh-pt: rumauntsch puter
  * roh-vl: rumantsch vallader
  * roh-gr: rumantsch grischun