We have an exciting update — an electronic dictionary of Ket (version 1.0) is published! This is a revised and extended version of the Comprehensive Dictionary of Ket, Kotorova & Nefedov (eds.) (2015), originally published with the support of MPI-EVA, Leipzig (Prof. Bernard Comrie).

Hello everyone! We’re back from the well-deserved summer break and are more than happy to resume our regular INEL-related threads.

The majority of the Hamburg delegation is leaving Tartu just now. Thanks Tartu for being lovely and the organizers for a wonderful #cifu14 experience

The last minutes

Final discussion in the "Building diachronic corpora for minority languages" workshop touched legal issues, version control, applications of AI among other topics. We had a productive and encouraging workshop #cifu14 #langsky

A fantastic #cifu14 reception at the Estonian National Museum with greetings and songs by representatives of many Finno-Ugric peoples!

We do build corpora. Come hear us talking about it!

Many people have come to learn about the @projektinel.bsky.social and legacy data. There is so much to do with Samoyedic languages but others too #cifu14 #langsky

Opening the symposium on Building diachronic corpora for minority languages at Congressus XIV Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum. The symposium is organized by Jeremy Bradley, Daria Zhornik, Ksenia Shagal (Munich), Timofey Arkhangelskiy, Alexandre Arkhipov (Hamburg), and Trond Trosterud (Tromsø).

Do any of these names sound familiar? INEL going all strong 💪

It is indeed! Finally!

There was just now a talk by Josefina Budzisch about Selkup and Nenets

There is another INEL talk happening just now! Alexandre Arkhipov is speaking about stress in Kamas.

Let's start with Timofey Arkhangelskiy and a very interesting topic...

#CIFU14 just was opened officially and there is an INEL delegation about to present some talks in the next couple of days. Stay tuned for that!

We are happy to announce that the INEL Tavda Mansi Corpus is published and can be downloaded or searched online! www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/en/inel/akti...

Hello everybody! Traditionally, we take a summer break from our educational INEL threads to resume in fall with new energy. So, this week let’s reflect on what we shared with you over the last year.

This month, we’ll introduce you to another language included in the INEL project as of recently – the Ket language. Starting this year, we will be building a corpus of texts in Ket. Alexandre Arkhipov (@sarkipo.bsky.social) has been appointed to this task.

Hello, everyone! As you might remember, we recently published two corpora, so it’s high time we introduced you to the new languages we’ve taken aboard. And, of course, they are quite unique in nature.

Excited to share that three new INEL corpora⸺Enets, Nenets, and Evenki 2.0⸺were published by the end of last year! You can find the published archives at the INEL community of the UHH Centre for Sustainable Research Data Management: www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/communities/...

📢 Exciting news! We’re preparing to release a Nganasan language corpus that will include traditional stories about shamans—key figures in Nganasan culture. Shamans heal, protect, and sometimes bring disaster. Until then, let’s explore some of their most fascinating legends! #Nganasan #Folklore

✨ Happy New Year! As a team, we extend our best wishes for a productive and meaningful start to 2025. This week, we are pleased to share a glimpse into the Evenki corpus, one of the rich linguistic and cultural collections we work with.

Today we're excited to share this Forest Nenets folklore story, as the Nenets corpus nears its release. The story was recorded in 2002 and published in 2016 by Tatva und Alla Logany, who have been collecting Forest Nenets folklore since the 1990s.

This month, we’re sharing a retelling of an Enets folktale, a story that brings a touch of Halloween eeriness beyond October. Stay tuned as we unfold this mysterious tale of Dyoa.

Nilʼi kʰo̰m ux päärt-jɔlöpäält toonʼsʼeet. - Four people are standing under a board. What could it be? 1️⃣ A bridge 2️⃣ Table legs 3️⃣ A windmill 📊 Show results

It's time for the second Mansi riddle! Kitʼ jüüpüünʼčʼət ük əntääpkwälkəl kätkətiim toonʼčʼeet. - Two brothers stand girded with a belt. 1️⃣ Fence poles 2️⃣ A pair of scissors 3️⃣ A tent 📊 Show results

Here comes the first riddle! Wɔɔr pɔɔkt sülʼiišaan kɔrtɔtɔktɔɔl. - On the edge of a spruce forest, a bark basket with coals is dragged around. 1️⃣ A sledge 2️⃣ A pinecone 3️⃣ An ermine 📊 Show results

Hello everyone! After a well-deserved summer break and September full of conferences we’re back with more insights into the languages we work with.

The Uni Hamburg Institute of Finno-Ugrian and Uralic Studies has a soul! Jokes aside, the 5th Conference on Syntax of Uralic Languages - SOUL5 - took place at the IFUU on September 12-13. www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/ifuu/forschu...

Safely back home from Szeged! ☕️ While most of our posts were from coffee breaks, we’ll now share insights from the great talks delivered by our INEL members. Stay tuned for updates! #conference #INEL #Szeged

And we are done!

We had three more very interesting talks, two of them with materials of the inel project! Now we are out for lunch, gathering strength for the afternoon session!

We are at the coffee break again.

Day 2. And the first slot is all INEL!

We ended a successful day with a lovely conference dinner 😊

The next two sessions will be all about Nenets, including on talk from Josefina Budzisch with inel project data 😀

After another three very interesting talks about datasets and kinship terminology, we headed out for some lunch. Also very important!

Most important: coffee breaks

Our dear Sasha Arkhipov is talking about comitatives right now!

Hello hello. Long time no see. Let's ease back into work after summer with some nice conferences. Quite many of the inel colleagues are in Szeged right now.

With a little delay we are delighted to share that INEL took part in the LREC-COLING2024 conference with a poster on Corpus Services - a framework that helps us to deliver high-quality language corpora. It was a great opportunity to exchange knowledge and expertise!

Ready to know what the correct answers were? Here are they!

Thursday riddle time: A white man looks down from the sky. 1️⃣ The Moon. 2️⃣ A cloud. 3️⃣ Snowfall. 📊 Show results

Wednesday riddle! I walk on the water, leaving no traces. 1️⃣ A boat. 2️⃣ A duck. 3️⃣ A wave. 📊 Show results

So here comes the first riddle. Good luck! A furry man lies on the top of a stove in the winter and in the summer. 1️⃣ A cat. 2️⃣ A blanket. 3️⃣ A household deity. 📊 Show results

Hi everyone! Before we go on summer vacation, we thought we might entertain you again with some riddles... This time we found a few in Tavda Mansi texts!

Curious about a linguistic journey through time? This April, join us at #INELproject as we explore how the languages of the project express April - or rather what we might call April.

While yesterday we just talked about what we work with (which is also very cool), let's get a little more personal today! We're not data-producing robots, we're real people! A great team! www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/inel/team.html

So far we've only stumbled in here and pretended everyone knows which #languages we actually work with! But now we're officially revealing it once again!