Resource title in English: Linguistic Landscape of Bishkek, source

Resource title in Finnish: Bishkekin kielellinen maisema, lähdemateriaali

Shortname: lilabi-src

Metadata: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2025060801


Rightholder: Enes Yılandiloğlu 


License: CC-BY-NC
The complete license is available at http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2025060802

A copy of the license is included in LICENSE.txt. The license details may be 
subject to change, so before downloading the resource, please refer to the 
latest version of the license at the above link.


Resource group page: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2025082102



Resource description
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LILABI (Linguistic Landscape of Bishkek) provides the largest open-access 
dataset of linguistic landscape for Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan.

The dataset comprises images of 511 unique signs in Bishkek, presented in 
12 languages, primarily Russian, Kyrgyz, and English. Each file name starts 
with the coordinates where the photograph was taken, followed by the name 
of the photograph.

The data were collected between October 19 and 27, 2024, during a field trip 
to Bishkek organized by the HALS (Helsinki Diversity Linguistics Group).

For ethical reasons, the people and plates in the photographs were manually 
cleaned up.

The metadata was manually prepared for the languages and alphabets they contain, 
in addition to the concept of the sign, such as restaurant or bank. You can link 
the photographs to the metadata by using the "name" key in the metadata file. 



For further information, please contact fin-clarin@helsinki.fi .