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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear colleagues, I am sending you all this
information in case you<BR>could publish it in your electronic newsletter. I do
hope we might establish<BR>a joint project. I'd like to tell you about our group
of Phonostatistics<BR>and Typological Studies. It would be very kind of You to
let<BR>me know about Your activities in the field of phonostatistics
and<BR>typology. I planned to attend the conferences in the West to renew
my<BR>contacts. Actually, I failed to find a bursary for my trip to the
West.<BR>This is why your e-mail infromation is of great interest.<BR>If You
happen to inform us about some international conferences on<BR>phonostatistics,
we'd be most grateful. Please,be so kind as to let us<BR>know. Our group of
phonological studies of Siberian, Paleo-Asiatic,<BR>Uralo-Altaic, Far East,
Oceanian languages and Japanese is looking<BR>forward to establishing close
contacts with all the world<BR>colleagues in these fields of
phonostatistics.Many articles on Siberian,<BR>Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Mongolian,
Tungus-Manchurian and Paleo-Asiatic <BR>languages were published. Now our small
group is working on the texts<BR>of the 46 languages of the world. Our main aim
is to feed in the computer<BR>the following languages:1. Japanese; 2.Nivh;
3.Ket; (Finno-Ugric): <BR>4.Mansi(Vogul):Sygva, Sosva, and Konda dialects;
5.Hanty(Osjak): Kazym and Eastern <BR>dialects; 6. Hungarian; 7.Komi-Zyrian;
8.Udmurt (Votiak); 9. Mari (Che-<BR>remis): Mountain and Lawn dialects; 10
Mordovian: Erzia and Moksha; <BR>11 Vepsian; 12. Vodian; 13. Karelian: Tihvin,
Livvikov and Ljudikov;<BR>14. Saami (Lopari); 15. Finnish; (Samoyedic):16.
Nganasan; (Turkic):<BR>17. Azeri (Azerbaidjanian); 18. Tatar: Sibirian-Baraba
and Kazan; <BR>19. Altai (Kizhi);20. Kumandin(Altai); 21.Turkish; 22. Turkmen;
<BR>23. Jakut(Saha); 24.Karakalpak; 25.Kazah; 26. Kirgiz; 27.
Tofalar;<BR>28.Shorian; 29. Dolganian; 30.Hakas; 31.Ujgur; 32.Uzbek;
(Tungus-<BR>Manchurian): 33.Nanai; 34. Negidal; 35. Evenk (Tungus);
36.Even;<BR>37. Uljch; 38. Orok; 39. Oroch; 40. Nivh; (Mongolian): 41.
Mongolian;<BR>42.Buriatian; 43. Kalmykian; (Slavonic): 44.Russian; 45.
Ukrainian;<BR>46. Belorussian; 47. Sorbian; 48. Serbo-Croatian; (Iranian):
<BR>49. Gilian; 50. Persian (Iranian); 51. Tadjikian; 52. Pushto;
<BR>(Paleo-Asiatic): 53. Iteljmen (Kamchadal); 54. Chuckchian; 55.
Jukagir;<BR>56. Eskimo:Siberian and American; 57. Arabic; 58. Mangarayi
(Aboriginal <BR>Australian). Our main goal is to calculate the phonological
distances <BR>on the basis of the frequency of occurrence of phonemes and
phonemic <BR>groups. Then we plan to publish the word frequency dictionaries of
the<BR>languages mentioned above. As a matter of fact,many of these languages
<BR>are on punch-cards, but we have to transfer them on PC diskettes.Many <BR>of
the texts (e.g. Japanese,Persian,Arabic, etc.) are fed in the form <BR>of
phonological transcription. We could exchange some of the material <BR>in the
electronic form. We'd be also happy to work together on<BR>some joint project
with linguists all over the world.<BR>Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia.
E-mail address:<BR> <A
href="mailto:yutamb@hotmail.com">yutamb@hotmail.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>