Corpus of Old Literary Finnish

Written Finnish texts from the years between 1543 and 1810, browsable and searchable on the web. The collection contains bible translations and religious texts (e.g. all of Mikael Agricola’s Finnish works), legal texts, poems, and texts concerning agriculture, nature, health etc., among others. It was compiled for lexicographic use.

More information on the corpus: http://kaino.kotus.fi/korpus/vks/meta/vks_coll_rdf.xml

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Of this language corpus different versions/subcorpora are 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.

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This resource group page has a Persistent Identifier: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2021050705

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