Corpora: joint project

[Yuri Tambovtsev]

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

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