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Language Data Sources

· sound recording collections
· written sources (manuscripts, books, periodicals)
· card files and other data collections, etc.

The Aruodai database will contain, first of all, language data important for the study of national culture:

· folk beliefs (formerly called superstitions) from the Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language;
· onomatopoeic interjections and other onomatopoeic words from the Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language;
· dialectic names of plants from the card file of the Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language;
· selected data from the Dictionary of Synonyms and the Dictionary of Antonyms;
· The Phraseological Dictionary;
· selected texts from old written records;
· mythological place names from the proper name index of the ILL’s Onomastics Department;
· surnames selected from church records;
· stories in dialect (sound recordings and transcribed texts from the Dialect Archive of the ILL), etc.


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