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Danish voices in the Americas (2014-2018)

The project is closed

The research project ’Danish Voices in the Americas' has seeked to map heritage Danish in North America and in Argentina. The project was facilitated through grants by the A.P. Møller og Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond til almene Formaal, by the Carlsberg Foundation and by University of Copenhagen. Read about the project.

Emigrant Danish in Argentina
Danish Voices is the first research project to digitally record and study heritage Danish speech in the Argentine.
Emigrant Danish in North America
Danish Voices analyses analoguous recordings in North America and renders them digital.

Sponsors and host

The project was sponsored by A.P. Møller Fonden, the Carlsberg Foundation and by the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics (UCPH). The latter hosted the project.

Project team
See list of researchers in the project team.