Dialectal Forms Explorer ? Help

What are dialectal forms?

• Runosong texts often use dialectal or archaic word forms that differ from the standard dictionary lemma. For example, "taha" (dialectal) vs "tahtma" (standard Estonian).
• These pairs were extracted from DeepSeek AI annotations that identified the standard lemma for each dialectal form in the corpus.
• Studying these pairs reveals systematic sound correspondences and regional linguistic patterns preserved in folk poetry.

Sound correspondence patterns

• The bar chart shows the most common character-level transformations detected between standard and dialectal forms.
• Patterns like "aa→ea" or "h→∅" (h-dropping) indicate systematic phonological processes in different dialect areas.
• Bars are split by language (blue = Estonian, red = Finnish) to show which patterns are language-specific.
• Click any pattern bar to filter the table below to only show pairs with that pattern.

Using the table

• Wordform: The form as it appears in the corpus text.
• Standard: The standard dictionary lemma this form maps to. Click to open in the main lexicon.
• Dialectal: The dialectal lemma identified by the annotation system.
• Pattern: The detected sound change pattern (character-level transformation).
• Sort by any column by clicking the header. Filter by language (Estonian/Finnish) or search by text.