Pick an English concept (e.g. mother, sing, death) and see its Finnic dialectal variants spread across 803 runosong collection places. Circle colour shows the dominant wordform at each place; size shows total occurrences, counted once per poem for each wordform.
What this shows
For each English meaning present in the DeepSeek translation index (483,025 concepts), the map plots every collection place where one or more Finnic wordforms carrying that meaning were recorded. Circle size encodes the total number of occurrences at that place, where each wordform is counted once per poem; colour encodes the variant that is most common there.
How to read the map
Dominant (default) — a place is coloured by the single most-used wordform for that concept.
Variant Focus — after clicking the circle icon next to a variant in the sidebar, the map recolours by the share of that one variant alone. Best for tracking regional footprints of minority forms.
Heat — single-hue gradient by total occurrences, regardless of which variant is used. Best for seeing where a concept is recorded most.
Use the eye icon next to a variant to hide it from dominant-variant colouring (so the next-highest form wins).
Data caveats
Coordinates mark where songs were collected, not necessarily where variants were natively spoken.
Only the 29,929 most widespread Finnic wordforms have place indices, the ones recorded in the greatest number of poems; very rare concepts are excluded from the search.
Places with fewer than 2 total occurrences for the selected concept are hidden for legibility.
Data sources: translation_index.json (English→Finnic), place_word_index.json (Finnic→places), map_data/place_points.json (coordinates).
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Places and dominant word forms for “mother”
Map any English concept to its Finnic dialectal variants across 803 runosong collection places. Compare how "mother", "sing", "death" and thousands more concepts are expressed in Finnic folk poetry.