Keyword: Finnish Language and Finno-Ugric Languages

We co-operate with native scholars of Mari, Mordvin and Udmurt languages and their background organisations, universities and research institutes.

The ultimate goal of linguistic studies is to find out how language works. The researchers of Finnish and other Finno-Ugric languages are especially interested in questions related to the structure of language, interaction, variation, change, and language learning. 

The Archive of Finnish and Finno-Ugric languages is a research archive specialized in developing and maintaining data collections of Finnish and other Finno-Ugric languages.

The Syntax Archive is a research archive specialised in developing and maintaining Finnish language corpora. It houses digitised text, video and sound corpora available to researchers and students. The majority of the data is organised into digitised annotated corpora.

The Finnish Language and Culture (for non-native speakers) programme includes a basic study module (25 ECTS) and an intermediate study module (35 ECTS). We arrange courses on Finnish grammar and language structure, linguistic history and variation, the practical use of Finnish, and academic writing. Our courses also provide insight into Finnish culture and society. 

Our subject engages in co-operation both within the scientific community and in the society at large by offering special expertise on different topics in a variety of ways.

Our research is focused on the Finno-Ugric languages spoken in the central Volga region in Russia, i.e. on Mari, Mordvin and Udmurt. Our research topics include the structure and history of these languages and their relation with the Turkic languages of the area, Tatar and Chuvash. We are working in close collaboration with scholars of the Mari, Mordovia and Udmurt State Universities.  

Research and teaching at the Department of Finnish and Finno-Ugric Languages focuses on language structure and use. The department is the most important producer of grammatically annotated digital language corpora of Finnish and other Finno-Ugric languages.