The database contains audio and video material related to traditional culture - songs, folktales, legends, life stories and various collective or individual folklore related performances. The content has been either specifically contributed to the Archives of Latvian Folklore or collected by its staff members.
The Audio Recordings Archive (Suomen kielen nauhoitearkisto) holds over 23,000 hours of recordings collected since 1959, providing authentic samples of Finnish dialects, languages related to Finnish, and other world languages. The collection additionally includes samples of Finnish dialects spoken in Sweden, Norway, Ingria, the United States and Australia. Digitisation of the audio bank was undertaken in 1999. Over half of its content has been digitised, totalling about 13,000 hours of recordings.
The database consists of three sets: - Many Talker Set: 30 males, 30 females; each to read 50 numbers, 1-2 connected passages, 1 block of "filler" sentences, and 1 block of syllables. - Few Talker Set: 4 males, 4 females; each to read 50 numbers, 10 connected passages, 1 block of "filler" sentences, and 2-3 blocks of syllables. - Very Few Talker Set: 1 male, 1 female; each to read 2 blocks of 50 numbers, 40 connected passages, 4 blocks of "filler" sentences, and 9 blocks of syllables. Total amount ca 12 hours of speech.
A vocabulary resulting from the cooperation of the groups of REALITER network that collects the basic terminology mostly used in texts about Genomics. It contains equivalents in English, Peninsular and Latinamerican Spanish, French, Italian, Galician, Portuguese and Catalan.
Bavaria's Dialects Online (BDO) is the digital language information system of the three projects "Bavarian Dictionary", "Franconian Dictionary", and "Dialectological Information System of Bavarian Swabia". The database combines the research results of dialect research and presents dictionary articles as well as research data in a freely accessible online tool.
BDO is not only aimed at scholars, but also at the lay public interested in the language. Here, the vocabulary of all Bavarian dialects is collected in one place and made accessible. The system shows the richness of the dialects of Bavaria in combination. With the new database, one will be able to compare the dialect vocabulary of Old Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia. Authentic dialect evidence is used to illustrate the dialect words in their variety of meanings and regional distribution, as well as to show their use in idioms, proverbs, and much more. BDO allows a whole new look at the vocabulary of the dialects of all parts of the state of Bavaria.