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INEL Projekt @projektinel.bsky.social · 1d

We hope you enjoyed this short thread. Next month we come back with more curiousities from the INEL languages!

INEL Projekt @projektinel.bsky.social · 1d

The Kamas word for bear is “urga-aba” (big father, i.e. grandfather). This reflects a taboo widespread throughout Siberia against calling a bear by its “real” name. The Evenks also use “amaːkaː” (grandfather), while the Dolgans prefer the term “ebekeː” (grandmother).

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INEL Projekt @projektinel.bsky.social · 2d

The Kamas hunters were very skilled at imitating the calls of a male wild deer—the Altai wapiti or the Altai deer. They used one-meter-long pipes made of cedar wood and produced sounds by inhaling, which required extreme lung power.

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INEL Projekt @projektinel.bsky.social · 2d

The Kamas used to collect wild lily bulbs and then boil and dry them in order to ground them into flour. This lily flour was either added to cooked meat or used to make a kind of porridge.

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INEL Projekt @projektinel.bsky.social · 3d

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INEL Projekt @projektinel.bsky.social · 3d

This is a result of fruitful collaboration between the original editors-in-chief Elizaveta Kotorova and Andrey Nefedov and the INEL member Elena Lazarenko. The dictionary data underwent substantial revision by the editors and is avaliable online at
inel.corpora.uni-hamburg.de/ket_dict/

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INEL Projekt @projektinel.bsky.social · 3d

We have an exciting update — an electronic dictionary of Ket (version 1.0) is published! This is a revised and extended version of the Comprehensive Dictionary of Ket, Kotorova & Nefedov (eds.) (2015), originally published with the support of MPI-EVA, Leipzig (Prof. Bernard Comrie).

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INEL Projekt @projektinel.bsky.social · 3d

Back in the day, the Kamas people were nomads who traveled with their reindeer. After most of the reindeer died of disease around 1850, the Kamas settled down and released the remaining animals into the forests.

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INEL Projekt @projektinel.bsky.social · 3d

Apart from Plotnikova’s recordings of the Kamas speech, there is only a limited number of other
audio sources. The earliest recording of spoken Kamas is a copy of Kai Donner's wax cylinder from 1914
(archived at the University of Tartu): murdearhiiv.ut.ee/en/records/S...

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murdearhiiv.ut.ee

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INEL Projekt @projektinel.bsky.social · 3d

Since the death of her aunt Matryona, Klavdiya Plotnikova had no one to talk to in her mother’s
tongue for 20 years. She only could speak Kamas to God and to her cow.

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INEL Projekt @projektinel.bsky.social · 4d

This month we start with Kamas, an extinct Samoyedic language, the last speaker of which - Klavdiya
Plotnikova - died in 1989. We published a corpus with Kamas data a while back -
www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/en/inel/proj...

Sub-project Kamas

www.slm.uni-hamburg.de

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INEL Projekt @projektinel.bsky.social · 4d

Let’s begin with something entertaining. For the next few months, we will present various trivia
about several INEL-languages. Some of them may already be familiar to you from our earlier posts,
some will be brand-new

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INEL Projekt @projektinel.bsky.social · 4d

Hello everyone! We’re back from the well-deserved summer break and are more
than happy to resume our regular INEL-related threads.

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INEL Projekt @projektinel.bsky.social · Aug 23

The majority of the Hamburg delegation is leaving Tartu just now. Thanks Tartu for being lovely and the organizers for a wonderful #cifu14 experience

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INEL Projekt @projektinel.bsky.social · Aug 22

The last minutes

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Mervi de Heer @mervideheer.bsky.social · Aug 22

Final discussion in the "Building diachronic corpora for minority languages" workshop touched legal issues, version control, applications of AI among other topics. We had a productive and encouraging workshop #cifu14 #langsky

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Aug 21

A fantastic #cifu14 reception at the Estonian National Museum with greetings and songs by representatives of many Finno-Ugric peoples!

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INEL Projekt @projektinel.bsky.social · Aug 21

We do build corpora. Come hear us talking about it!

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Mervi de Heer @mervideheer.bsky.social · Aug 21

Many people have come to learn about the @projektinel.bsky.social and legacy data. There is so much to do with Samoyedic languages but others too #cifu14 #langsky

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Aug 21

Opening the symposium on Building diachronic corpora for minority languages at Congressus XIV Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum. The symposium is organized by Jeremy Bradley, Daria Zhornik, Ksenia Shagal (Munich), Timofey Arkhangelskiy, Alexandre Arkhipov (Hamburg), and Trond Trosterud (Tromsø).