Finnish Proverb Collection

The collection includes dialectal proverbs collected from various areas in the 1930s. This is a resource of Kotimaisten kielten keskus, the Institute for the Languages of Finland. For more information please see https://kaino.kotus.fi/korpus/sp/meta/sp_coll_rdf.xml.

This resource contains only a part of the 1.4 million proverbs collected in different regions of Finland. The National Archives of Finland have digitized quite a few of the handwritten cards containing proverbs. The digitized cards are available in jpg format at http://digi.narc.fi/digi/dosearch.ka?sartun=385077.KA

Latest versions/subcorpora:
Proverb Collection, Kielipankki Version
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Of this language corpus different versions are (or might be in the future) published in the Language Bank of Finland. The versions are available through the Language Bank Download Service and/or through the Korp concordance tool. The links to the different versions can be found from the list above.

Detailed information on the content of each version, user rights and licenses can be found from it’s specific metadata record in META-SHARE.

This resource group page has a Persistent Identifier: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2021081104

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