DATABANK FOR
ENDANGERED FINNO-UGRIC LANGUAGES
Report

Goals of the Project:

1. Providing a text corpus collection of endangered Finno-Ugric languages in machine-readable form;
2. Basic linguistic research.

Economical Fund:

1. Academy of Finland (SA)
2. University of Helsinki: Department of Finno-Ugric Studies
3. Department of General Linguistics
4. Joint Committee of the Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities (NOS-H)
5. The Nordic Research Council

Length of the Research Period:

1. Academy of Finland: 1996-1998
2. Joint Committee of the Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities: 1996-1997

Project personal:

1. Seppo Suhonen, University of Helsinki, Department of Finno-Ugric Studies, chief of the project.
2. Researchers and research-assistants :

Finland

1. University of Helsinki, Department of Finno-Ugric Studies:
1. NOS-H: Jelena Adel
   (part-time researcher),
2. Jarmo Alatalo (full-time researcher),
3. Miikul Pahomov (part-time researcher),
4. and Merja Salo (full-time researcher)
5. Academy of Finland: Erja Kujala (short-term research-assistant)
6. Jack Rueter,
7. and Tapani Salminen (part-time researchers).

2. Department of General Linguistics:


Academy of Finland: Pirkko Suihkonen (full-time researcher).

Sweden

1. University of Uppsala, Department of Finno-Ugric Studies
1. NOS-H: André Hesselbäck and
2. Manja Lehto (full-time researchers)
2. University of Umeå, Institute for Saami
1. NOS-H: Olavi Korhonen (part-time researcher).

Norway

1. Nord-Trøndelag College, Department of Education
:
NOS-H: Nora Bransfjell (part-time researcher)
2. Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities
NOS-H: Sjur Moshagen (full-time researcher)
3. Norwegian University for Science and Technology, Department of Linguistics:
NOS-H: Sagka Renander (short-term research-assistant).

1. Finland: Komi and Erzya (Jack Rueter), Khanty (Merja Salo), Nenets (Tapani Salminen), Selkup and Kamassian (Jarmo Alatalo), Livonian (Seppo Suhonen);
2. Sweden: Ingrian (Manja Lehto), Hill Mari (André Hesselbäck) and Ume Saami, (Olavi Korhonen)
3. Norway: Southern Saami (Nora Bransfjäll, Sjur Moshagen, Sagka Renander).

Samples of the following languages were adjusted for use in the University of Helsinki Language Corpus Server (UHLCS) in 1996 - 1999:

Uralic languages: Livvi, Dvina-Karelian, Ludian, Ingrian, Veps, Livonian
Kildin Saami, South Saami, Ume Saami, Erzya, Moksha, East Mari, West Mari,
Komi Zyrian, Komi Permyak, Khanty, Mansi, Hungarian, Enets, Nenets, Selkup and Kamas;

Indo-European languages: Kurdish, Ossete, Tajik, Armenian, Latvian, and Lithuanian, Belorussian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, and Moldavian (Romanian);

Caucasian languages: Avar, Lak, and Tabassaran;

Turkic languages: Altai, Azerbaijani, Balkar, Bashkir, Crimean Tatar, Gazauz, Khakas, Kirghiz, Kumyk, Kazakh, Turkmen, Tuvin, Uyhghur, Uzbek, and Yakut;

Mongolic languages: Buryat, and Kalmyk;

Tungusic languages: Even, Evenki, and Nanay;

Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages: Chukchi, and Koryak.