Electronic Atlas of Tatar Folk Dialects

Website: atlas.antat.ru

In 2011-2012, through the joint efforts of specialists from the Institute of Applied Semiotics of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Institute of Language, Literature and Art of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, and Kazan Federal University, an electronic version of the Atlas of Tatar Folk Dialects was created. It is based on materials from Volumes I-II of the first printed edition of the atlas (1989) and unpublished materials of Volume III, prepared for publication by the Institute of Language, Literature and Art of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan. The work was carried out with financial support from the Russian Foundation for the Humanities (project No. 11-04-12020v).

The Atlas of Tatar Folk Dialects includes all major Tatar settlement areas and reflects information on the phonetics, morphology, lexicon, and syntax of the Tatar language, collected in 28 regions of Russia based on a specially developed program for gathering materials for the dialectological atlas (1959).

The database of the electronic atlas contains an attribute part, which presents information on the distribution of values for 215 linguistic phenomena across 1047 settlements, and a cartographic part. The maps display features of Tatar dialects in the sections of phonetics (68 maps), morphology (49 maps), lexicon (93 maps), and syntax (5 maps). The atlas maps provide information on the distribution of dialects and sub-dialects across selected settlements (not present in the printed version).

A system of standard statistical queries to the database has been implemented. The atlas includes an extensive bibliography on Tatar language dialects (over 1000 titles). A system for obtaining additional information about the atlas settlements using the internet has been implemented.

The release of the electronic version of the atlas is a new stage in presenting dialectological knowledge of the Tatar language based on geographic information systems. The electronic method of presentation allows the user to control the type of visualized information, obtain additional details about objects located on the atlas maps, use search tools, and dynamically adjust all changes in the atlas content.

Last updated: 8 December 2025, 16:44