Kamas corpus version 2.0 published!

9 January 2024, by INEL-Webredaktion

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We are happy to share that an updated version (2.0) of the INEL Kamas Corpus was published by the end of the last year!

Gusev, Valentin; Klooster, Tiina; Wagner-Nagy, Beáta. 2023. “INEL Kamas Corpus.” Version 2.0. Publication date 2023-12-31. http://hdl.handle.net/11022/0000-0007-FC25-4. Archived at Universität Hamburg. In: The INEL corpora of indigenous Northern Eurasian languages. https://hdl.handle.net/11022/0000-0007-F45A-1.

It contains the folklore texts collected by Kai Donner from the years 1912-1914 as well as transcribed audio recordings of Klavdiya Plotnikova, the last speaker of Kamas. The recordings were made between 1964 and 1970.

New in version 2.0

• The phonetic transcription according to Klumpp's edition of Donner's manuscripts has been added
• Texts have been merged
• Partial annotation of existential, locative and possessive predication
• The ELAN file format *.eaf was added for all transcripts
• Numerous corrections to glosses, annotations and transcriptions