Corpora of Mongolic languages

• Historical corpora: Middle Mongol and Written Mongolian

  • Historical Corpus of the Mongolian Language
    Mongolian written monuments from the 13th c. onward in Uighur-Mongolian, ʼPhags-pa, Sino-Mongolian and Clear script (incl. the Secret History), plus Deed Mongol recordings; 374 texts, c. 270,700 words. Transliteration, normalized transcription, morphological annotation (lemma, grammar, gloss) and translations (EN, RU, FR, Khalkha, DE); search by word form/lemma/grammar with subcorpora by script, genre and period; Tsakorpus platform.
  • K-Search full-text: Written Mongolian texts and Mongolian texts in Chinese script (H. Kuribayashi, Tohoku Univ.)
    Hitoshi Kuribayashi's online system (Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University): full-text search in Written Mongolian texts (Manchu-Mongolian mirror, Manju i yargiyan kooli, Xiaojing, Mongolian Laoqida etc.) and in Mongolian texts in Chinese script (Yuanchao bishi, Hua-yi yiyu), plus some 30+ digitised dictionaries.

• Mongolian (Khalkha)

  • Mongolian Corpus (web-corpora.net)
    Corpus of modern Mongolian on the Corpus Technologies platform (© 2007–2009) with search by word form, lemma and grammatical features, subcorpora and distance search. The site gives no size or compiler information.
  • Leipzig Corpora Collection: Mongolian
    Mongolian (Cyrillic) news corpus crawled in 2011: 377,892 sentences, 5,241,858 tokens; frequency data, co-occurrences and usage examples; other Mongolian subcorpora selectable.
  • mnWaC: Corpus of the Mongolian Web (Sketch Engine)
    Web corpus of Mongolian (almost 6 million words) crawled with SpiderLing in March 2016; available in Sketch Engine (concordances, word sketches, word lists).
  • UD Mongolian GDUD
    Small Universal Dependencies treebank: 88 sentences of Khalkha Mongolian (grammar examples).

• Buryat

  • Buryat Corpus (IMBT SB RAS)
    Written corpus of literary Buryat, c. 3 million tokens (October 2024 update), texts of all main styles, morphological annotation (lemma and grammar; 85% of tokens analysed). Online since 2012; developed at the Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies SB RAS.
  • Diachronic Corpus of the Buryat Language
    Initial version of a corpus of Buryat texts in Written Mongolian (Latin transliteration) with frequency dictionary and grammatical description of lexemes; RFBR project 18-012-00665 (L. B. Badmaeva, L. D. Badmaeva, O. S. Rinchinov, M. V. Ayusheeva, IMBT SB RAS).
  • Russian National Corpus: Buryat–Russian parallel corpus
    The RNC parallel corpus includes a Buryat–Russian subcorpus (aligned originals and translations, e.g. prose by Kh. Namsaraev) with grammatical annotation of the Buryat side.
  • UD Buryat BDT
    Buryat dependency treebank: 927 sentences, 10,187 tokens (grammar examples, news, fiction); manual annotation; E. Badmaeva, F. Tyers.
  • Library of Buryat texts
    Site of Zhargal Badagarov.

• Kalmyk and Oirat

  • Kalmyk National Corpus
    Corpus of the Kalmyk Scientific Centre RAS (c. 9 million words): late 20th–early 21st c. fiction, newspapers, speech; a subcorpus of early texts in Clear script.
  • Another Kalmyk corpus (web-corpora.net)
    About 800,000 tokens: literary texts (novels, stories, essays) and newspaper articles of the late 20th–early 21st c. with morphological annotation (search by lexeme, grammar, translation). Created by A. E. Vankaeva (RAS Presidium programme 'Corpus Linguistics'); UniParser analyser by T. Arkhangelskiy.
  • INEL Kalmyk Corpus (Hamburg)
    Transcribed recordings 2007–2018 (Ketchenerovsky district, Kalmykia; Dörbet and Torgut dialects) with morpheme glossing, English and Russian translations and audio alignment; version 1.0 (2025) by V. Baranova; Tsakorpus search and download (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
  • UD Kalmyk GDUD
    Small UD treebank: 92 Kalmyk sentences (grammar examples).
  • ELAR: Comparative studies of Kalmyk and Oirat (E. Indjieva)
    Audio and video recordings 2005–2007 from Oirat speakers in Kalmykia, Xinjiang and Mongolia (36+ h audio, 9 h video, 1,000+ Praat annotation files); access restricted.
  • ELAR: Documenting the Durvud dialect of Oirat in Western Mongolia (Ts. Yunger)
    Documentation of the Durvud dialect of Oirat in western Mongolia as used in nomadic life; ELDP grant (2014).
  • ELAR: Documenting the Mongol Uriankhai dialect and culture of Mongolia (Ts. Yunger)
    Recordings of Uriankhai (Khovd, Bayan-Ölgii, Khövsgöl), 2015–2017: everyday speech, songs, eulogies, tales, with transcription and translation.
  • ELAR: Documenting Henan Oirat, China (A. Rákos)
    Audio and video of Henan Oirat (Qinghai), 2013–2014: folklore, narratives, dialogues, with phonetic transcription, English translations and annotation.

• Other Mongolic languages

  • Online Text of Mongolic Languages (ILCAA, TUFS)
    Yasuhiro Yamakoshi's database of glossed texts: Shinekhen Buryat (incl. folktales), Khamnigan Mongol and Khorchin Mongolian; glosses, Japanese and English translations, audio; search in original, glosses and translations. Launched 2020.
  • UD Daur GDUD
    Small UD treebank: 95 Dagur sentences (grammar examples); Wenchao Li, Haitao Liu; in UD since v2.19.
  • UD Tu GDUD
    Small UD treebank: 77 sentences of Tu (Monguor) (grammar examples).
  • ELAR: Documentation of a Dialect of Mongghul and a Dialectological Survey of Mongghul (B. Faehndrich)
    ELAR collection (2013): sketch grammar of one Mongghul (Tu) variety, wordlist and small dialect survey.
  • Mangghuerla Bihuang Keli (folktale reader, Internet Archive)
    Mangghuer folktale reader (Wang Xianzhen) collected in 1996 in Minhe villages, with sound recordings; the first book written in Mangghuer.