Fwd: [Corpora-List] where can one find electronic texts in Caucasian languages?

[Stephen Miller]

>[snip]
>Dear colleagues, I wonder if someone knows how many languages of Africa 
>are there in the electronic form and which? It looks there are no 
>Caucasian, no Paleo-Asiatic, no Tungus-Manchurian, no Siberian Finno-Ugric 
>or Turkic languages in the electronic form. I'm surprised that different 
>funds which deal with the endagered languages do not care to have these 
>endagered languages in the electronic form. They seem to give money only 
>for writing grammars who nobody will see. Why not to create the corpora of 
>endagered languages? Looking forward to hearing from you to 
><mailto:yutamb at hotmail.com>yutamb at hotmail.com Yours sincerely Yuri 
>Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk, Russia

http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/uhlcs/projects/databank/databank.html
DATABANK FOR ENDANGERED FINNO-UGRIC LANGUAGES

http://www.utu.fi/hum/sgr/VolgaPalvEngl.htm
THE VOLGA SERVER

may be useful starting places (not my area at all, just what I have found 
through a quick www search)

As reagrds your last point, http://www.hrelp.org/home.htm

Stephen Miller

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