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

From: Stephen Miller (Stephen.Miller@assoc.oeaw.ac.at)
Date: Mon Jun 23 2003 - 18:39:03 MET DST

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    >[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@hotmail.com>yutamb@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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