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EoSS language sample

The project aims to collect data from at least 50 Indo-European languages over the period 2011-2012. Our target is to collect data from a subset of the 67 languages below. If you're interested in joining our study, please get in touch with us (details on the consortium page).

CELTIC

Goidelic ― Irish [gle]
  Scots Gaelic [gla] in progress Sileas Landgraf
Brythonic ― Welsh [cym]
  Breton [bre]

GERMANIC

North ― Icelandic [isl] finished Matthew Whelpton, Þórhalla Guðmundsdóttir Beck
  Faroese [fao] finished Zakaris Hansen, Bjarni Steintún
  Danish [dan] finished Carsten Levisen
  Norwegian [nob] finished Åshild Næss
  Swedish [swe] finished Susanne Vejdemo, Magnus Enquist
West ― English [eng] finished Linnaea Stockall, Euphemia Snell
  Dutch (Leuven) [vls] finished Stefanie Fauconnier, Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Bram Fauconnier
  Frisian [frs] finished Pieter Duijff
  Dutch (Nijmegen) [nld] finished EoSS team
  Luxembourgish [ltz] finished Claudine Moulin, Claudine Hamen, Robert Clees
  German [deu] finished EoSS team
  German [qmu] finished EoSS team, Cornelia van Scherpenberg
  Schwyzerdütsch [gsw] finished Raphael Berthele, Martina Zimmerman

ITALIC

Italo-Western ― Portuguese [por] in progress Luís Faísca
  Spanish [spa] in progress Ana Laura Diez
  Catalan [cat]
  Galician [glg] in progress Ana Laura Diez
  French [fra] finished Anetta Kopecka, Camille Frouin
  Walloon [wln]
  Provencal [prv] in progress Benjamin Fagard
  Ladin [lld]
  Romanch [roh] finished Raphael Berthele, Martina Zimmerman, Anetta Zini
  Italian [ita] finished Scott Fairhall
  Friulian [fur] finished Giosuè Baggio
Eastern ― Sardinian [sro] preparing Iga Nowak
Southern ― Rumanian [ron] in progress Cristiana Papahagi, Melania Duma

ALBANIAN

  Tosk [als] in progress Enkeleida Kapia
  Gegh [aln] in progress Enkeleida Kapia

GREEK

  Greek [ell] finished Christina Manouilidou

ARMENIAN

  Armenian [hye] finished Armina Janyan, Nune Vardanyan

BALTO-SLAVIC

Baltic ― Lithuanian [lit] finished Vilius Dranseika, Mindaugas Gilaitis
  Latvian [lav] finished Jurģis Šķilters, Līva Brice
East Slavonic ― Byelorussian [bel] in progress Dzmitry Kanaplianikau
  Ukrainian [ukr] in progress Liliya Morska
  Russian [rus] in progress Michael Daniel, Nina Dobrushina
South Slavonic ― Slovenian [slv] in progress Amanda Saksida
  Croatian [hrv] in progress Ida Rafaelli, Ranko Matasović
  Serbian [srp]
  Macedonian [mkd] in progress Marjan Markovikj
  Bulgarian [bul] finished Elena Andonova, Antoaneta Bojilova, Yoana Vergilova
West Slavonic ― Lower Sorbian [dsb]
  Upper Sorbian [hsb]
  Czech [ces] in progress Jan Chromý
  Polish [pol] finished Anetta Kopecka, Aleksandra Dmowska
  Slovak [slk] in progress Katarina Dudová, Igor Tyšš

INDO-IRANIAN

Iranian ― Northern Kurdish [kmr] in progress Hiwa Asadpoor
  Central Kurdish [ckb] in progress Hiwa Asadpoor
  Ossetic [oss]
  Persian [pes] finished Hiwa Asadpoor
  Laki [lki]
  Fars [faz] in progress Hiwa Asadpoor, Faryar Akhlaghi
  Nayini [nyq] in progress Hiwa Asadpoor, Roohollah Mofidi
  Vafsi [vaf] in progress Hiwa Asadpoor
  Dari (Afghan) [prs]
  Baluchi [bgp] in progress Hiwa Asadpoor
  Waziri [pst]
  Tadzik [tgk]
  Wakhi [wbl]
Indo-Aryan ― Sindhi [snd]
  Gujarati [guj]
  Marwari [rwr]
  Lahnda [pnb]
  Kashmiri [kas]
  Panjabi [pan] preparing Chaudry Rashid Mahmood, Qandeel Hussain, Muhammad Asim Mahmood, Muhammad Shakir Aziz
  Marathi [mar] preparing Ritwik Kulkarni
  Hindi [hin] in progress Samiksha Bajpai
  Singhalese [sin] in progress Sandarenu Kumarasamy
  Nepali [nep]
  Oriya [ori]
  Bihari [mai]
  Bengali [ben]
  Assamese [asm]
  Urdu [urd] preparing Chaudry Rashid Mahmood, Muhammad Shakir Aziz, Muhammad Asim Mahmood, Qandeel Hussain
Principal Investigators

Asifa Majid
Fiona Jordan
Michael Dunn

EoSS office

Carolin Lorenz
Research Assistant
Phone +31 24 352 1183
Fax +31 24 352 1300
E-mail: eoss@mpi.nl

Street address

Wundtlaan 1
6525 XD Nijmegen
The Netherlands

Mailing address

Postbus 310
6500 AH Nijmegen
The Netherlands