This repository is the place where the data from the Spoken corpus of Abaza is curated. This repository also provides an alternative way to access corpus data locally. The data is stored in data_oral_abaza_corpus.csv with 4094 rows and 13 columns:

• filename
• time_start
• time_end
• speaker
• sentence_id
• text
• translation
• word_forms
• morphonology
• gloss
• language
• dataset_creator
• dataset_provider

The corpus contains oral texts of the Tapanta dialect of the Abaza language. Recording were made during a joint HSE University / RSUH expeditions to the village of Inzhich-Chukun in the Abazinsky district of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic in 2017-2019. Text analysis and glossing was done by the participants in the research and study group “Aspects of Abaza Grammar” and the RSF grant # 17-18-01184 “Communicative organization of natural discourse in spoken and signed languages.” The search function entered a closed testing regime in December 2019.

If you use data from the Spoken corpus of Abaza in your research, please cite as follows:

Anastasia Panova, Anna Sorokina, Peter Arkadiev, Elena Sokur. Spoken corpus of Abaza. Moscow: School of Linguistics, HSE University; Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, HSE University. (Available online at: http://lingconlab.ru/spoken_abaza/, accessed on ...)

You may contact with questions about the Corpus data or leave an issue in this repository:

[email protected] (Anastasia Panova)

You may contact with questions about the search platform or leave an issue in its own repository:

[email protected] (Elena Sokur)