Sub-project Selkup

Selkup is the last Southern Samoyedic language still spoken, which together with the Northern Samoyedic languages make up the Samoyedic branch of the Uralic languages.

In the last Russian census in 2010, a total of about 1,000 people stated that they spoke Selkup, the vast majority of whom can be assigned to Northern Selkup, while Central and Southern Selkup can be considered almost extinct.

In the INEL project, Angelina Kuzmina's archival materials (handwritten manuscripts, 8554 in 37 notebooks, and audio recordings, approx. 25 hours) located in Hamburg at the Institute for Finnougristics/Uralistics and in Novosibirsk are being processed, i.e. first digitised and then glossed and linguistically annotated (see the language examples on the website, link). The materials are mainly from the 1960s, so they are based on a different language situation than today.

The INEL Selkup Corpus 2.0 is available for download under open access conditions and via web-based search.