This resource will be available for download in Kielipankki - the Language Bank of Finland. The "Four Battles" parallel corpus consists of a children's book by L. Uspenskij, "Four Battles", published in the late 1930s and early 1940's in several languages. The National Library of Finland, in their Fenno-Ugrica collection, has seen to the open licensing of this book, including numerous variations of the Russian text associated with the translations in Komi-Zyrian, Komi-Permyak, Udmurt, Meadow and Eastern Mari, Hill Mari, Erzya, Moksha, Mansi, and Nenets. All translations except Nenets are included in the parallel corpus. The text is short, and the presence of variation in the Russian-language texts may provide an insight into translation development practices in the minority Uralic languages of the Soviet Union. The texts have been obtained directly from the Fenno-Ugrica collections of the National Library of Finland. Five of the parallel texts have been proofread by Niko Partanen, Jeremy Bradley, Alexandra Kellner and Boglárka Janurik in 2017, and the rest were proofread in spring 2023 by Jack Rueter and Csilla Horváth.

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