DOI: 10.25592/uhhfdm.9721
title: INEL Selkup Corpus

description: <strong>Corpus Citation</strong>

<em>Brykina, Maria; Orlova, Svetlana; Wagner-Nagy, Beáta. 2021. “INEL Selkup Corpus.” Version 2 .0. Publication date<br>
2021-12-31. https://hdl.handle.net/11022/0000-0007-F4D9-1. Archived at Universität Hamburg. In: The INEL corpora<br>
of indigenous Northern Eurasian languages. https://hdl.handle.net/11022/0000-0007-F45A-1</em>

<strong>Corpus Description</strong>

The INEL Selkup corpus has been created within the long-term INEL project ("Grammatical Descriptions, Corpora and Language Technology for Indigenous Northern Eurasian Languages”), 2016–2033. The corpus enables typologically aware corpus-based grammatical research on the Selkup language and expands the documentation of the lesser described indigenous languages of Northern Eurasia.

The INEL Selkup corpus is composed of texts from the archive of Angelina Ivanovna Kuzmina (1924–2002), who gathered a large amount of material on Selkup in almost all regions where the Selkup people lived between 1962–1977. The archive was transferred by A.I. Kuzmina to Eugen Helimski and acquired by the Universität Hamburg in 2001. Most texts in the corpus originate from the handwritten part of the archive, the others come from sound recordings made by A.I. Kuzmina, transcribed and translated within the INEL project.

<strong>Funding</strong>

The corpus has been produced in the context of the joint research funding of the German Federal Government and Federal States in the Academies’ Programme, with funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The Academies’ Programme is coordinated by the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities.

<strong>Contributions/Acknowledgements</strong>

Audio recordings made by Angelina Kuzmina were transcribed and translated by native speakers of Selkup:


 Irina Anatolyevna Korobejnikova, written transcription and Russian translation of audio in Central and Southern dialects
 Natalya Platonovna Izhenbina, written transcription and Russian translation of audio in Southern dialects
 Svetlana Nikitichna Sankevich (Kunina), oral transcription and Russian translation of audio in Northern dialects
 Evgeniya Sergeevna Smorgunova (Irikova), oral and written transcription and Russian translation of audio in Northern dialects
 Valentina Vladimirovna Tamelkina, oral transcription and Russian translation of audio in Northern dialects


For individual contributions to the collecting, transcribing and analyzing of individual texts, please refer to the user documentation and to the corpus metadata.

The web-based search interface is using the Tsakonian Corpus platform developed by Dr. Timofey Arkhangelskiy, Humboldt Research Fellow at IFUU, Hamburg University

<strong>New in release 2 .0</strong>


 The corpus now contains 352 transcripts from 89 speakers, representing the dialects of Taz, Upper Tolka,
 Baikha (Northern), Narym and Tym (Central), Middle Ob, Chaya and Ket (Southern). These contain 14509
 sentences and 81498 words in total.
 Many texts have been provided with annotations for syntactic functions and semantic roles. 
 Corrections to audio transcriptions, glossing and other annotations.
 Dialectal attribution of several speakers has been revised.
 The remaining n on-glossed texts from the Kuzmina archive have also been added to the corpus for completeness. These include 3 texts from the written part of the archive and 40 audio recordings, for 20 of which a preliminary transcription is provided.