Linguistic Variation in the Province of Satakunta in the 21st Century Corpus

Sapu*, a sociolinguistic research project at the University of Turku, started in 2007. Since the beginning the goal of the project was to study the current dialects, regional and social variation around the province of Satakunta, which is one of the historical provinces and administrative units in Finland. Yet, dialectically the province is divided into two; the dialectal boundary between 1) the Southwestern Dialects and 2) the Dialects of Häme and the Transitional Dialects is traditionally considered one of the most distinctive in Finland. The project was funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation and the Turku University Foundation.

*Sapu is the abbreviation for Satakuntalaisuus puheessa (’Satakunta in the Speech’) the Finnish name of the project. The official name for the project in English is "Linguistic Variation in the Province of Satakunta in the 21st Century"

Details for this resource and its other versions can be found at The Language Bank of Finland: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2025091121. 

Licence for this version of the resource: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2022092122

A general overview of the resource can be found in: 
Kurki, Tommi, Huhtala, Atte, Koivunen, Tomi & Mäkitalo, Nelli (2022). Satakuntalaisuus puheessa -korpus ja siitä tehtyjä synkretismihavaintoja: Syncretism in Colloquial Finnish – Observations of the Satakunta corpus. AFinLA-teema, 14, pp. 103-134. doi:10.30660/afinla.11124