Dairy Terms in Languages of the Ural-Volga Region: A Linguistic Geographical Aspect
Introduction. The article deals with names of dairy products used by peoples inhabiting the Ural-Volga Region. Goals. The study seeks to identify general (characteristic of the Ural-Volga peoples at large), genetic (characteristic of a specific language ...
Rimma T. Muratova, Ildar R. Vildanov
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Наименования домового в диалектах коми-зырянского языка [Designations of House Spirits in the Dialects of Komi-Zyrian] [PDF]
The paper provides linguistic analysis of more than 40 mythonyms denoting the house spirit in the Komi-Zyryan language. Among the analyzed names both original lexical units (separate lexemes and phrases) and those borrowed from Russian folk dialects are ...
Evgenia Aibabina, Olga Nekrasova
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Sohranenie jazykov i finno-ugorskij mir. Language Maintenance and Finno-Ugric World; pp. 127-142 [PDF]
The article focusses on various ethnolinguistic consequences of the new, postmodern world order and its implications on Finno-Ugric and Uralic languages in particular.
Mart Rannut
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LLMs for Extremely Low-Resource Finno-Ugric Languages
The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has predominantly focused on high-resource languages, leaving low-resource languages, such as those in the Finno-Ugric family, significantly underrepresented. This paper addresses this gap by focusing on Võro, Livonian, and Komi.
Taido Purason +2 more
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Abstract Background It is important to map the clinical competence of newly graduated nurses in Nordic countries. The use of a common Nordic instrument could provide insights into nurses' levels of self‐assessed clinical competence and perceptions of their need for professional development.
Anna Anåker +7 more
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ELDIA – a Finno-Ugric minority research project approaching its goal [PDF]
ELDIA (European Language Diversity for All) was set out to investigate the state and conditions of language diversity in Europe by way of diverse Finno-Ugric minorities from Norway to Slovenia. The idea was to utilise the existing research infrastructure
Laakso, Johanna
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WE…WITH ANNA: THE INCLUSORY PLURAL PRONOMINAL CONSTRUCTION IN FINNISH AND FENNO‐SWEDISH*
Abstract This article provides a syntactic analysis of the inclusory plural pronominal construction in Fenno‐Swedish and Finnish. In this construction, a plural pronoun has a singular reading: vi …med Anna (literally “we …with Anna”) means ‘Anna and I’. In addition to the plural pronoun, the construction includes a comitative PP.
Klaus Kurki
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Improving translation for low-resource Finno-Ugric languages with Neural Machine Translation models
Training a good neural machine translation model requires a lot of data. The majority of languages in the world have low amounts of suitable data available for this task.
Tars, Maali
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Low-resource Finno-Ugric Neural Machine Translation through Cross-lingual Transfer Learning [PDF]
First high-quality machine translation models were mainly focusing on large languages, such as English and German. Thankfully, the trend has been growing toward helping languages with fewer resources.
Tars, Maali
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INTERNET-CORPORA FOR FINNO-UGRIC LANGUAGES OF RUSSIA
Digital language corpora have long become one of the most important tools in linguistic research; a new methodological approach, known as corpus linguistics, has been based on corpora. While comprehensive corpora exist for the major European Uralic languages (Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian), the smaller Uralic languages of Russia did not have comparable ...
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