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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=HU link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'>I am happy to announce that a new online typological database, the Typological Database of the Volga Area Finno-Ugric Languages (Havas et al. 2023) has been released and is available at<a href="https://volgatyp.elte.hu/"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'> </span><span style='color:windowtext'>volgatyp.elte.hu</span></a>. The database, which is available in three languages (English, Hungarian and Russian), aims to present the main typological properties of three Finno-Ugric (Uralic) languages belonging to the Volga-Kama area: Meadow Mari, Udmurt and Komi-Permyak. It consists of more than 200 typological parameters (morphological, morphosyntactic and syntactic, among which word order-related features), and the related parameter values for each language. Parameter values are marked with specific codes, and each parameter value is illustrated by linguistic examples and is accompanied by a concise description of the related phenomenon of the given language. The linguistic data partly come from previous sources and are partly new data, collected from native speakers and from contemporary written texts. The set of parameters is identical with that of the “Typological Database of the Ugric Languages (<u><a href="http://utdb.elte.hu/"><span style='color:windowtext'>utdb.elte.hu</span></a></u>); this set, as well as the scope of targeted languages, are open to be amplified.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'>The database was developed at the Department for Finno-Ugric Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. The development was financed by the project NKFI K 125282 'Typological database of the Volga Area Finno-Ugric Languages' (PI: Ferenc Havas) of the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:0cm'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'>Ferenc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'>Ferenc Havas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'>prof. emer. of linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'>ELTE University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'>Budapest</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>