“Mansi corPŌS”: Archiving Mansi Written Materials Published between 1937 and 2020

The paper presents the project “Mansi corPŌS” aiming to archive the materials written in Mansi, published in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation between 1937 and 2020. The paper briefly introduces the history of Mansi literacy, with special attention to the literary and ethnographic editions, transcribed in Cyrillic and published with the cooperation of Mansi speakers, as well as Mansi press. The presentation focuses on the previous attempts and projects aiming to archive the available written Mansi resources, the comparison of the results of the present and previous projects, the corpus created on the basis of materials archived in present project, as well as the future utilisation of the archived materials and the corpus, taking into consideration the viewpoint of both the scientific and the Mansi communities.