RNC News

New texts of about 100,000 tokens were added to the Dialect corpus. The new texts represent the dialects of the north (Arkhangelsk Oblast, Karelian and Komi Republics), the Volga region (a large collection of dialects from the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) and the south (Smolensk and Kaluga Oblasts, and the Molokans of the Caucasus). The update includes both transcripts from pre-revolutionary and pre-WWII times, as well as field data from recent expeditions. Several hundred audio and ten video recordings have been added, where not only dialects are audible, but one can also see how a boat is tarred in the north or bees are raised in Azerbaijan.