Armenian corpora and texts online

Armenian electronic corpora include several text banks of Old Armenian (http://www.digilib.am/, titus.uni-frankfurt.de, www.sd-editions.com/LALT/home.html), as well as a syntactically tagged corpus of Western Armenian texts created by Anaïd Donabédian (INALCO, Paris), see description at a.donabedian.free.fr/textes/Noojarmenien.pdf.

General purpose untagged SEA texts (electronic libraries) are represented on the Internet by several open-access online libraries offering fiction (http://www.armenianhouse.org/, http://www.hayeren.hayastan.com/, http://www.artgrak.am/) and non-fiction (http://www.people.cornell.edu/, http://www.arlis.am/, http://www.brusov.am/).

Modern SEA press enjoys good online representation due to online editions of several popular Armenian newspapers. Most newspaper websites, however, only allow access to a current issue. The few exceptions that feature archives include http://www.azg.am/, http://www.aravot.am/, http://www.yerkir.am/, http://www.iravunk.com/.

We are thankful to all those who made Armenian text resources openly available on the internet; below is a list of on-line resources used in the creation of the EANC database.

In contrast with written discourse, spoken Standard Eastern Armenian is completely unavailable for research either online or in print. Unsurprisingly, the absence of raw materials complicates any descriptive effort in this domain.

Downloads in EANC: press      
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www.azg.am

                     1 366  

                11 296 771  

 
www.aravot.am

                     1 646  

                14 013 907  

 
www.hzh.am

                        741  

                 6 514 430  

 
www.hayrenik.com

                        245  

                 1 057 653  

 
www.noyan-tapan.com

                        131  

                 1 040 634  

 
www.iravunk.com

                     1 048  

                    582 583  

 
www.noravank.am

                            6  

                      27 267  

 
www.yerkir.am

                            6  

                      21 954  

 
total

                    5 189  

              34 555 199  

 
       
Downloads in EANC: fiction and non-fiction    
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www.people.cornell.edu  

                    696 548  

        696 548  

www.armenianhouse.org

                  558 070  

                    350 469  

        908 539  

www.arlis.am  

                    643 390  

        643 390  

www.genproc.am  

                    286 050  

        286 050  

www.artgrak.am

                  189 635  

                      40 782  

        230 417  

www.hayeren.hayastan.com

                  179 267  

                      15 560  

        194 827  

www.vernatun.org

                  183 759  

                        3 144  

        186 903  

www.new.aravot.am

                  176 069  

 

        176 069  

www.armenianpoetry.com

                    81 700  

 

          81 700  

www.vraert.com

                    16 089  

                      17 426  

          33 515  

www.archives.am  

                      57 788  

          57 788  

www.hawatk.com

                    56 435  

 

          56 435  

www.qahana.am  

                      38 442  

          38 442  

www.democracy.am  

                        9 354  

           9 354  

www.hhk.am  

                        7 770  

           7 770  

www.forum.hayastan.com

                     5 532  

 

           5 532  

www.hyeforum.com

                     5 083  

 

           5 083  

www.hakhverdyan.livejournal.com

                     3 634  

 

           3 634  

www.hayary.org

                     1 434  

 

           1 434  

www.inknagir.org

                  119 739  

                      55 458  

        175 197  

www.hetq.am

                     4 430  

 

           4 430  

total

             1 580 876  

                2 222 181  

   3 803 057  

       
Downloads in EANC: online communication    
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forum.am-kayq.com 442 399