about

XTYP lab is a virtual repository of spoken data from various underresourced languages. The corpora has been created with a parallel design, containing short narratives that were elicited with the same instructions across speakers. This data is appropriate for the study of variation between speakers, in particular with relation to frequent phenomena in discourse, such as word order, prosodic structure in narratives. Since its focus is on comparability between speakers, it lacks representativity in other respects, i.e., grammatical structures appearing in other discourse contexts are not represented at all.

The present resource was created with the contribution of different people at the General Linguistics of the Bielefeld University (2010-2017) and University of Göttingen (2017-2025), also within research projects funded by the DAAD, DFG, Volkswagen Foundation.

The editorial team

Languages

In these sections, you find the materials by language - along with basic information about data collection. The pictures show how Canva AI imagines these people and places.

Eastern Armenian

Bahasa Indonesia

Batsbi

Bokotá

Cabécar

Dan

Fongbe

Garifuna

Georgian

Malagasy

Pontic Greek (Caucasus)

Qiang

Tbilisi Russian

Caucasian Urum

Yucatec Maya

people