The Iźva Komi Project

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Iźva Komi: Building an annotated digital corpus for future research on

Komi speech communities in northernmost Russia

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Коми-ижемцы: Создание аннотированного электронного

корпуса для дальнейших исследований по коми языковым

сообществам российского Крайнего Севера

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Structure:

1. Work group2. Objectives3. Reasons for documentation

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Work group in three cities: Freiburg, Munich and Syktyvkar

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Work group in Germany:

University of Munich:Dr. Rogier Blokland

University of Freiburg:Dr. Michael RießlerNiko Partanen, MA

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Work group in the Komi Republic:

Komi Republican Academy of State Service and Administration:

Dr. Marina Fedina

Syktyvkar State University:Vasilij Chuprov

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Main goal of the project:

Improve the availability of linguistic documentation of varieties of Iźva Komi

Main outcome:

A digital corpus of spoken Iźva Komi varieties from inside and outside the Komi Republic, annotated and linked to multimedia files

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A digital corpus of spoken Iźva Komi

a) based on i) existing legacy materials

ii) fieldworkb) annotatedc) linked to multimedia filesd) metadata in standard Komi, Russian &

Englishe) Translations into Russian and English

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Annotation metadata: orthographic transcription and translations (program: ELAN; 3+ tiers)

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Reasons for documenting Iźva Komi:

1. All Uralic languages apart from Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian are endangered

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Reasons for documenting Iźva Komi:

1. All Uralic languages apart from Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian are endangered

2. Many major Uralic languages are not well documented

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Reasons for documenting Iźva Komi:

1. All Uralic languages apart from Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian are endangered

2. Many major Uralic languages are not well documented

3. The dialect monograph on Iźva Komi is from 1976, nearly 40 years old

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Reasons for documenting Iźva Komi:

1. All Uralic languages apart from Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian are endangered

2. Many major Uralic languages are not well documented

3. The dialect monograph on Iźva Komi is from 1976, nearly 40 years old

4. The language contact situation of Iźva Komi is very interesting for contact linguistics in general

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The dialects of the Komi-Zyrian language

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The Iźva dialect of the Komi-Zyrian language

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The spread of the Iźva dialect across northern Russia

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The spread of the Iźva dialect across northern Russia

1. Kola Peninsula2. Nenets AO3. Yamalo-Nenets AO4. Khanty-Mansi AO

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The project will do fieldwork in:

1. The Iźva-speaking area in the Komi Republic (language contact with Russian)

2. The Kola Peninsula(language contact with Saami)

3. The Khanty-Mansi AO(language contact with Mansi and Khanty)

4. The Yamalo-Nenets AO(language contact with Nenets)

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Documentation ≠ description!

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Language documentation:

1. Making language material available to a wide range of audiences (linguists, speakers, others)

2. In our case (relatively) inaccessible ‘legacy’ material is to be made digitally accessible

3. Material thus made available can be used for description, but this is not our task!