<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">We are pleased to announce the release of a new
multimedia collection of materials on the <b>Endangered
Languages and Cultures of Siberia</b>. The collection was created as part of
the projects </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">funded by ELDP (2003-2006, Major Documentation Grant
awarded to Tapani Salminen), a British Academy Small Research Grant (2011-2012,
project number 9480 BX51), a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2012-2014,
project number RF-2012-131), a SOAS Faculty of Languages and Cultures Strategy
Fund award (2014) awarded to Irina Nikolaeva, a grant from the Academy of
Finland awarded to Larisa Leisiö (2009-2012, project number 125225), and an
AHRC-funded project ‘Prominent Possessors’ awarded to Irina Nikolaeva (PI), </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Oliver Bond and Greville G. Corbett </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">(2015-2019, project reference AH/M010708/1).</span></p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">It is
hosted by the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of Surrey (<span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="color:black"><a style="color:blue"><span style="color:black">www.smg.surrey.ac.uk</span></a></span></span>).</span></p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Endangered Languages and Cultures of Siberia</span></b></p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.siberianlanguages.surrey.ac.uk%0d" style="color:blue"><span style="color:black">www.siberianlanguages.surrey.ac.uk</span></a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">This resource is a multimedia collection of linguistic
and cultural information, which consists of a corpus of original audio and
video texts in several minority languages of Siberia. The texts are accompanied
by transcriptions, translations and analyses, as well as general information
about the language, references, dictionaries, and images, all linked to present
a flexible and interactive exploration space for a variety of users and to
document a wide range of phenomena. <span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">The aim is to provide people
from various backgrounds (linguists, anthropologists, speakers, language
planners and the general public) with a database that can serve a variety of
purposes.</span></span></p>

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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">At
present, the site hosts the data from seven languages: Even, Forest Enets,
Kolyma Yukaghir, Northern Khanty, Tundra Nenets, Tundra Yukaghir and Udihe. </span></p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span></p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">The
audio and video recordings on the site were collected during fieldwork in
Siberia by a <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.siberianlanguages.surrey.ac.uk/about/" style="color:blue"><span style="color:black">team of language specialists</span></a></span></span><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">, whose participation is </span>gratefully acknowledged. </span></p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>

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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Nikolaeva,
Irina, Edward Garrett & Oliver Bond. 2019. Endangered Languages and
Cultures of Siberia. <a href="http://www.siberianlanguages.surrey.ac.uk%0d" style="color:blue"><span style="color:black">www.siberianlanguages.surrey.ac.uk</span></a></span></p>

<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12.8px">---</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font size="1">Prof. Irina Nikolaeva, FBA, MAE<br>Department of Linguistics<br>University of London, SOAS<br>Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square<br>London WC1H 0XG</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font size="1"><a href="https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31522.php" target="_blank">https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31522.php</a><br></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>