Today, we have released the ultimately final set of materials in the course of Minority Languages Project. There are now three more journals from Komi (Udarnik, Kultura front and Vyԉ voјvyv) and three journals from Udmurtia (Proletаr kylburet udysyn, Piči demenči and Kuzʹyli) at the Fenno-Ugrica collection.
Category Archives: Fenno-Ugrica
Early Publications of Finno-Ugrian Society and Finnish Antiquarian Society have been released in Fenno-Ugrica
The National Library of Finland has released the early publications of two learned societies at the Fenno-Ugrica collection. The release consist of 130 monograph and journal titles of Finno-Ugrian Society and 64 from the Finnish Antiquarian Society.
The batch includes the material from the following series:
Finnish Antiquarian Society
- Suomen Muinaismuistoyhdistyksen Aikakauskirja
- Kansatieteellinen Arkisto
- Suomen Museo – Finskt Museum
Finno-Ugrian Society
- Apuneuvoja suomalais-ugrilaisten kielten opintoja varten
- Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia
- Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae
- Kansatieteellisiä julkaisuja
- Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen. Zeitschrift für finnisch-ugrische Sprach- und Volkskunde.
For additional information, please, read the press release in Finnish here.
Arthur Thesleff’s Manuscripts on the Roma and the Romani Language Published Online
In the course of the Minority Languages Project, the National Library of Finland has published the manuscripts of Arthur Thesleff (1871-1920) on Roma culture and Romani language online at the Zingarica collection.
National Library releases resources in Sami languages for free online use
The National Library’s Digitisation Project of Minority Languages has digitised Sami language resources for online use. The resources are available freely through the Fenno-Ugrica collection.
More Komi-Zyrian Monographs at Fenno-Ugrica
In the course of the Minority Languages Project, the National Library of Finland has relased the next set of materials in Uralic languages at Fenno-Ugrica. There are now available more than 120 monographs in Komi-Zyrian, mainly from the late 1920s and the early 1930s. Continue reading
MAA – Nichesourcing the Textbook for the Benefit of An Art Performance
Liiketila art collective and Minority Languages Project of the National Library Finland have launched a crowdsourcing, or perhaps even a nichesourcing task for the public, aiming to collect spoken Uralic languages to be utilized in an art performance called MAA (land, soil, nation, ground, earth, country).
Political literature of 1930’s from Komi Republic is available at Fenno-Ugrica
Digitized political legal deposit materials received from the The Komi National Library are now set at Fenno-Ugrica portal. 97 monographs in Komi-Zyrian language written in Molodtsov alphabet have been loaded on the Special collection of Fenno-Ugrica called “Komi National Library”. Continue reading
Fenno-Ugrica Has Reached New Milestones
Fenno-Ugrica, an online collection for materials in Uralic languages at the National Library of Finland, has reached new milestones. Since its launch in June 2013, there has been more than 250 000 downloads from this collection up to date. On Sunday, we passed by another landmark: 150 000 downloads in 2015 alone.
Fenno-Ugrica Content Available in a New Platform – Korp
Since the very beginning of the Digitization Project of Kindred Languages, our objective has been the securing the wider-than-usual availability of new corpora, which do base to the digitized material. Our primary intention has to spread the Fenno-Ugrica data to such tools and environments, which are made available for both, the academic and the language communities.
Digitization Project of Kindred Languages goes to Helsinki Book Fair, 22-25 Oct 2015
The Helsinki Book Fair is about to begin in a week. The theme country of this year’s event is Russia, thus we wanted to highlight our services related to Russian studies and Uralic languages. Naturally, the Digitization Project of Kindred Languages will be present in this event at the National Library’s stand (6e71). Please, find here a brief summary of our programme at the Book Fair.