A brief description of the project.

We are happy to present you the Finno-Ugric Electronic Library.

This project is aimed to popularize Finno-Ugric languages. Many of them have become the languages of ethnic minorities. Books in these languages are published in small number of copies and often only in the areas, where most of the speakers live. The World Wide Web gives the representatives of the Finno-Ugric peoples a unique chance to gain access to the information in their native languages from any place of the world. The Finno-Ugric Electronic library will help them to do this.

The Finno-Ugric Information Center in Syktyvkar started the work on compiling this library in December 2002. The project is funded by the Castren Society (Finnland). Initially, the library contained only Komi books. Since 2003 we have been constantly adding books in Mari, Udmurt, Erza and Moksha languages. We are planning to present books in other Finno-Ugric languages in the nearest future. Here, a reader can find electronic versions of language teaching books, fictions, scientific works and folklore texts. The texts are sorted in accordance to their languages and authors.

All the texts аre stored in PDF format. In order to read them, you will need the Acrobat ReaderR, which can be downloaded free of charge here.

The Finno-Ugric Information Center would be grateful for any help concerning the work of compiling this electronic bank of Finno-Ugric texts. If you have a published text in a Finno-Ugric language, which you would like and have a right to spread through Internet, please send it to us using the following E-mail address: [email protected]