Welcome to the start page of the Albanian National Corpus, which includes: the Main corpus of literary Albanian (from 1970s till present) and the Corpus of early Albanian texts.
Details To the Main corpus To the Corpus of early Albanian textsThis is the main page of the website where the Albanian National Corpus (ANC) with 31.12 million words is located.
The Corpus is designed for people interested in various issues related to the Albanian language, and may provide the reference data for both professional linguists and those who show an interest in Albanian and its history due to their occupation or out of mere curiosity. The material collected in the Corpus can be used for studies of the Albanian lexicon and grammar, as well as for the investigation of language changes which happened in Albanian in the previous centuries.
From 2012 to the present, the Albanian National Corpus included primarily original prose texts (fiction, non-fiction, press) representing the Albanian literary language (since the 1970s), as well as translated texts and Albanian poetry. The project aims at the widest possible presentation of not only modern written texts of various genres, but also texts created in different periods of the Albanian language history, as well as colloquial and dialectal texts representing non-literary forms of the modern Albanian language. To date, the Corpus of early Albanian texts has been opened (in September 2019) and continues to develop.
The texts of ANC have user-friendly metadata descriptions and morphological annotation consisting of tags assigned to words.
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Currently, two corpora are available: Corpus of the modern literary Albanian («Main corpus») and Corpus of early Albanian texts. They differ in what kind of texts they contain and how these texts are presented, but have mostly identical annotation and search capabilities. Here are the main characteristics of the corpora:
The Main corpus contains 31.12 million words and consists of the following subcorpora:
| Press | Fiction | Nonfiction | Poetry | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Size | 23.4 million words (75.2% of the Main Corpus) | 3.2 million words (10.3% of the Main Corpus) | 4.3 million words (13.8% of the Main Corpus) | 0.2 million words (0.7% of the Main Corpus) |
| Texts |
modern newspapers in Albanian: |
authentic and translated fiction texts: novels, novellas, short stories, plays, books for children (Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, 1960–2010s) |
authentic and translated nonfiction texts: |
Albanian poetry of the first half of the 20th century (works of Asdreni, A.Z. Çajupi, Migjeni, F. Noli, L. Poradeci); poetry of Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia, 1950–2010s |
| Language variety | In most cases, standard written Albanian or close to it. In the interviews and quotations one can meet examples of dialectal speech. |
In most cases, standard written Albanian or close to it. In the speech of the characters one can meet examples of dialectal speech or dialect stylization. |
In most cases, standard written Albanian or close to it. In the texts created before the 1950s earlier variants of literary language can be used. |
In most cases, standard written Albanian or close to it. In the poetic texts created before the 1950s earlier variants of literary language can be used. |
This Corpus is supposed to include the main monuments of the Albanian writing: the works by Gj. Buzuk, L. Matranga, P. Budi, F. Bardhi, P. Bogdani, P. Mazreku, the Kanun of Arbëria, etc.
To date, the text of the «Christian Doctrine» by Luka Matranga (1592) has been included into the Corpus of early Albanian texts. Matranga’s book is the second largest text written in the Albanian language, and the first in the Tosk dialect.
The text which is used in the Corpus is based on the so-called manuscript А. We used the transcription of M. de Vaan, based on M. Sciambra. La «Dottrina cristiana» albanese di Luca Matranga (1964) and available at TITUS. We are grateful to M. de Vaan for providing us with the textual version of the transcription. During the text processing, it was verified using the other editions of the book, including the phototypic ones.
In our publications you may find more information about the Albanian National Corpus, its contents, and development:
Morozova, Maria. Shënime për standardin morfologjik të Korpusit nacional të shqipes [Notes on the morphological standard of the Albanian National Corpus] // Seminari Ndërkombëtar për Gjuhën, Letërsinë dhe Kulturën Shqiptare. Materialet e punimeve të Seminarit XXXI Ndërkombëtar për Gjuhën, Letërsinë dhe Kulturën Shqiptare: Prishtinë, 13–27 gusht 2012 / kryered. B. Rugova. Prishtinë: Universiteti i Prishtinës: Fakulteti i filologjisë, 2012. 31/1. F. 153–156.
Arkhangelskij, Timofej, Mikhail Daniel, Maria Morozova, Aleksandër Rusakov. Korpusi i gjuhës shqipe: drejtimet kryesore të punës [Albanian Corpus: Main directions of work] // Shqipja dhe gjuhët e Ballkanit. Albanian and Balkan Languages. Konferencë e mbajtur më 10–11 dhjetor 2011 në Prishtinë / red. R. Ismajli. Prishtinë: ASHAK, 2012. F. 635-642.
Rusakov, Aleksandër, Maria Morozova. Korpusi i gjuhës shqipe: problemet dhe rezultatet [Albanian Corpus: Problems and results] // Studime për nder të Rexhep Ismajlit me rastin e 65-vjetorit të lindjes / red. B. Rugova. Prishtinë: Koha, 2012. F. 639–649.
Morozova, Maria, Alexander Rusakov, Marina Domosiletskaya. Albanskaya imennaya morfologiya v korpusnom predstavlenii: Natsionalnyj korpus albanskogo yazyka [The Albanian noun morphology in the morphological model developed for the Albanian National Corpus] // Albanskaya filologiya, balkanistika, problemy yazykoznaniya. К 100-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya chlena-korrespondenta RAN Agnii Vasiliyevny Desnitskoj / red. А. Kh. Girfanova, М. V. Domosiletskaya, А. V. Zhugra, N. N. Kazansky, А. Yu. Rusakov, N. L. Sukhachev. SPb: Nauka, 2013. S. 120–130.
Morozova, Maria, Alexander Rusakov. Korpusi elektronik i shqipes: përpunimi, përmbajtja dhe përdorimi [Electronic corpus of Albanian: Development, contents and use] // Seminari Ndërkombëtar për Gjuhën, Letërsinë dhe Kulturën Shqiptare. Materialet e punimeve të Seminarit XXXII Ndërkombëtar për Gjuhën, Letërsinë dhe Kulturën Shqiptare: Prishtinë, 19–30.08.2013 / kryered. B. Rugova. Prishtinë: Universiteti i Prishtinës: Fakulteti i filologjisë, 2014. 33/1. F. 85-96.
Morozova, Maria, Alexander Rusakov. Albanian National Corpus: Composition, Text Processing and Corpus-Oriented Grammar Development // Sprache und Kultur der Albaner. Zeitliche und räumliche Dimensionen. Akten der 5. Deutsch-albanischen kulturwissenschaftlichen Tagung (5.–8. Juni 2014, Buçimas bei Pogradec, Albanien) / Hrsg. von B. Demiraj. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. (Albanische Forschungen, 37). S. 270-308.
Morozova, Maria, Timofey Arkhangelsky, Mikhail Daniel, Alexander Rusakov. Albanskij natsionalnyj korpus: osnovnye napravleniya raboty [Albanian National Corpus: Main directions of work] // Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Trudy Instituta lingvisticheskikh issledovanij RAN / otv. red. N. N. Kazansky. SPb: Nauka, 2016. Т. XII, Ch. 3. S. 169–189.
If you use the information and examples from the Albanian National Corpus in your research, please use the following link:
Maria Morozova, Alexander Rusakov, Timofey Arkhangelskiy. Albanian National Corpus. (Available online at: albanian.web-corpora.net, accessed on
If you have questions, would like to propose collaboration, or noticed an error in the corpus, please contact us. You can also use the Albanian morphological analyzer and the tsakorpus corpus platform, which are open source and freely available.
morozovamaria86@gmail.com
ayurusakov@gmail.com
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