new Finnish online resources: toponyms, audio material

[Johanna Laakso]

Dear All,

the corpus server of the Research Centre for the Languages of Finland has
recently informed members of Finnish linguistic lists about two new online
resources:

Map of Finnish toponyms: http://kaino.kotus.fi/nikar/index.php . The user
interface, optimized for Firefox, can be used to draw maps showing the
distribution of certain place names or their elements in the pre-WWII
Finnish-language area.

Digital database of the audio collections ( http://kaino.kotus.fi/naark/ ),
containing mainly Finnish dialect interviews but also some material in other
Finno-Ugric languages. The material itself can only be used on location or
ordered by post (on CD as mp3 file) -- but in the future, the mp3 files
might be directly available online (as already in the Estonian dialect
phonotheque: http://www.eki.ee/murded/fonoteek/ ).

So far, the user interfaces for these valuable resources seem to be in
Finnish only. Please correct me if I'm wrong -- and please feel free to
announce similar resources of potential interest!

Best
JL
-- 
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Johanna Laakso
Institut für Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Abteilung für Finno-Ugristik
Universitätscampus AAKH, Spitalgasse 2-4 Hof 7, A-1090 Wien
Tel. +43 1 4277 43019, (VoIP) +43 599664 43019 | Fax +43 1 4277 9430
johanna.laakso at univie.ac.at | http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Johanna.Laakso/



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