Language materials in archives

Linguistic materials on Estonian Swedish dialects (incl. Runska) can be found in archives.

Institute for Language and Folklore – Institutet för språk och folkminnen (ISoF)

The Estonian Swedish collections of ISoF in Uppsala contain recordings, responses to questionnaires, word lists, photographs, illustrations etc. that document Estonian Swedish culture and the culture in Gammalsvenskby (in Ukraine) before the Second World War.

The materials in Runska that have been made open to the public can be accessed via Folke sök – Institutet för språk och folkminnen by clicking the link in the top right corner which takes you to a map with different locations, including Ruhnu Island.

Archives of the Cultural Association of Estonian Swedes in Stockholm – Svenska Odlingens Vänner (SOV)

holds recordings in Runska and about Ruhnu (in Standard Swedish). The recordings are stored on CDs.

Estonian Swedish Corpus – Den estlandssvenska korpusen at the University of Oslo

contains a morphologically tagged corpus of Estonian Swedish dialectal texts including sound files (in total 34 000 words). The Ruhnu materials comprise around 3000 tokens from 3 speakers. All the written texts are available in En bok om Estlands svenskar. 3B: Estlandssvenskar berättar: dialekttexter med översättning och kommentar (Langman 1990).

The corpus is a CLARIN resource that can be accessed if you or your institution has a CLARIN account or by contacting tekstlab (see the corpus homepage).

Archives of Estonian Dialects and Kindred Languages at the University of Tartu

contains 20 hours and 41 minutes of recordings in Runska from the archives of SOV in Stockholm and 3 hours and 5 minutes of recordings from private collections.