Liszka József (szerk.): Az Etnológiai Központ Évkönyve 2000-2001 - Acta Ethnologica Danubiana 2-3. (Dunaszerdahely-Komárom, 2001)

1. Tanulmányok - Borsos Balázs: A magyar nyelvterület számítógép segítségével meghatározott kulturális régiói

This last problem, as well as the problems of those maps that deal with more cultural phenomena cannot be solved at once, as it would mean a new arranging of the data of some maps. But as these kinds of maps occur only rarely, they do not influence the main result.

The distribution of cultural regions as defined by computer

On the basis of the theoretical principles of this kind of investigation, I now present the first, preliminary, results of this research, and show the cultural regions of the Hungarian-speaking territory, or to be more precise, the clusters of 417 settlements defined by the computer on the basis of their cultural characteristics as shown in the Atlas of Hungarian Folk Culture. I do not intend to analyse the result in detail, but shall simply refer to the most interesting parts of it.

The body of data put under analysis consists of all the separate maps and of all the settlements, without leaving out any of the problematic ones. The result correlates very well with the cultural regions determined by other means and can offer some new aspects in the investigation of the territorial distribution of Hungarian folk culture around 1900.

Table 1

Value of variance during clusterization of all variables and all elements The first 80 steps

(between 1 -40 simplified to two decimal marks (between 41-80 simplified to three decimal marks)

1- 2

23,34

21-22

2,07

41-42

1,315

61-62: 1,113

2- 3

22,31

22-23

2,00

42-43

1,298

62-63: 1,100

3- 4

13,51

23-24

1,89

43-44

1,276

63-64: 1,098

4- 5

6,83

24-25

1,84

44-45

1,268

64-65: 1,084

5- 6

6,61

25-26

1,80

45-46

1,247

65-66: 1,083

6- 7

5,97

26-27

1,80

46-47

1,244

66-67: 1,062

7- 8

5,89

27-28

1,60

47-48

1,239

67-68: 1,059

8- 9

5,64

28-29

1,59

48-49

1,235

68-69: 1,032

9- 10

4,13

29-30

1,58

49-50

1,226

69-70: 1,022

10-11

3,55

30-31

1,57

50-51

1,206

70-71: 1,012

11-12

3,54

31-32

1,48

51-52

1,193

71-72: 1,011

12-13

3,07

32-33

1,45

52-53

1,172

72-73: 1,010

13-14

2,93

33-34

1,42

53-54

1,160

73-74: 1,009

14-15

2,77

34-35

1,41

54-55

1,133

74-75: 1,006

15-16

2,76

35-36

1,40

55-56

1,132

75-76: 1,005

16-17

2,73

36-37

1,40

56-57

1,131

76-77: 1,000

17-18

2,68

37-38

1,40

57-58

1,124

77-78: 0,992

18-19

2,59

38-39

1,38

58-59

1,122

78-79: 0,991

19-20

2,34

39-40

1,36

59-60

1,121

79-80: 0,990

20-21

2,10

40-41

1,34

60-61

1,115

80-81: 0,984

As cluster-analysis orders elements according to the similarity of the values of the variants characterising them, this kind of investigation can analyse the ’’constellation” of the elements of a certain cluster under the process that determines more and more clusters. So we can define a more and more detailed picture of cultural areas of the Hungarian-speaking territo-55