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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Corpora colleagues, The
electronic Komi-Permian texts have been added to our language corpora.
The endagered languages must be transfered into electronic form. What
really kills me is that the funds which try to preserve the endagered languages,
do not care to put them into electronic form and to make them available on some
web site. They make linguists write grammars and pay money only for the
grammars. After that grammar books (on paper) are buried in some library. I
wrote to these funds for the endagered languages several times but
never received any answer. What do you think, should the texts be put
on some web site? It is a very strange policy of the funds for the endagered
languages. They do not seem to bother about the modern electronic form. Now
we have languages in the electronic form. Unfortunately, our project is not
supported by any <BR>university, private or government fund. This is why, our
<BR>project has only 158 languages for 34 years of our studies.Komi-Zyrian which
is close to Komi-Permian also needs a more intensive investigation by a
computer. Can you advise me where to get electronic texts in
Komi-Zyrian?<BR>Looking forward to your comments to <A
href="mailto:yutamb@hotmail.com">yutamb@hotmail.com</A> Yours <BR>sincerely Yuri
Tambovtsev <BR></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>