Dictionaries

The Research Institute for the Languages of Finland preserves and contributes to Finnish cultural history by compiling dictionaries of standard language and other variants. In addition to Finnish and Swedish dictionaries, we have compiled lexicons of selected languages related to Finnish, as well as Romany and Finnish Sign Language. Some dictionaries are updated electronically. In addition to printed dictionaries, the Research Institute compiles databases and corpora for the use of researchers.

Compilation of the following dictionaries is currently under way:

• Suomen murteiden sanakirja (Dictionary of Finnish Dialects) (seven volumes have been published to date, A-KONKELOPUU)
• Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål (Dictionary of Swedish Dialects in Finland) (three volumes have been published, A-KYSS)
• Vanhan kirjasuomen sanakirja (Dictionary of Old Literary Finnish) (two volumes have been published, A-K)
• Dictionary of Vogul
• Dictionary of Cheremis
  

The following dictionaries have been published:  

• Kielitoimiston sanakirja (The New Dictionary of Modern Finnish), printed version, 2006
• Kielitoimiston sanakirja (The New Dictionary of Modern Finnish), CD-ROM, Internet and intranet version, 2004
• CD-Perussanakirja (CD-ROM Basic Dictionary of the Finnish Language)
• Suomen kielen perussanakirja (Basic Dictionary of the Finnish Language)
• Suomi–ruotsi suursanakirja (Finnish-Swedish General Dictionary)
• Suomalaisen viittomakielen perussanakirja (Basic Dictionary of Finnish Sign Language)
• Finlandsvensk Ordbok (Finland Swedish Dictionary)
• Ganander’s Dictionary (modern typeface version) (in Finnish)
• Suomen sanojen alkuperä (The Origin of Finnish Words)
• Dictionary of Mordvin (in Finnish)
• Encyclopaedia Iuridica Fennica
• Finnish-Romani Dictionary (in Finnish)
• Karjalan kielen sanakirja (Dictionary of Karelian)