Introduction

The Oral Corpus of Alguerese constitutes the compilation of various corpora of Alguerese recorded in audio or audiovisual format. The aims of the project are to preserve these corpora in an up-to-date, easily accessible format, to make them available beyond the domain of linguistic research, to heighten awareness of the Alguerese sociocultural reality, to encourage research on this Catalan variety as a necessary first step towards its standardization and to promote the use of these files as a resource for teaching Alguerese to children and adults.

The corpora included here are: