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A [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_corpus '''text corpus'''] is a large collection of (often as diverse as possible) texts in a given language. Text corpora are very useful for checking how often a given expression is used in a language (and which are rare or never occur), thus they might be a huge help to learners who want to check whether a certain construction is natural-sounding or not. They are also extremely useful when doing research about language grammar and how it changes over time. Many corpora contain also additional information about individual words (like their part-of-speech and other inflectional information when applicable, like grammatical case, gender, tense, mood…).

Below is a list of useful publicly-available corpora for Celtic languages.

== Brittonic ==

=== Breton ===

=== Cornish ===

=== Welsh ===

== Goidelic ==

=== Irish ===
* [http://corpas.focloir.ie ''Nua-Chorpas na hÉireann''] (''New Corpus for Ireland''), also known as the ''Foclóir.ie corpus''
:* '''requires registration''' (free-of-charge)
:* all kinds of modern texts (fiction, poetry, official documents, newspaper articles, etc. from 20th and 21st century) written by both native and non-native speakers
:* allows filtering by text type (native/non-native, specific dialect)
:* part-of-speech tagged
:* uses [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketch_Engine Sketch Engine]
:* alternative new interface at [https://focloir.sketchengine.eu focloir.sketchengine.eu]
:* See [[Irish/Using Nua-Chorpas na hÉireann]] for some additional tips
* [http://corpas.ria.ie ''Historical Irish Corpus''], also known as the ''RIA corpus''
:* publicly available
:* literary texts composed in Irish between 1600 and 1926
:* part-of-speech tagged but with limited search functionality
:* allows searching for words in original spelling and by their modern standardized forms

=== Manx ===

=== Scottish Gaelic ===
* [https://dasg.ac.uk/corpus/ ''Corpas na Gàidhlig'' DASG]
:* publicly available
:* contains literary texts in Scottish Gaelic, from 12th century to 21st century (but mostly modern, 18th–21st c. texts; might be extended in the future with transcriptions of spoken language)
:* '''not''' part-of-speech tagged
:* based on [https://cwb.sourceforge.io/ Corpus Workbench (CWB)] with modified [https://cwb.sourceforge.io/cqpweb.php CQPWeb] interface
:* allows filtering by time period, geographical origin, particular text
:* allows complex queries using the CQP-syntax (but limited due to the lack of POS-tagging)

=== Classical Gaelic ===
* [https://app.sketchengine.eu/#dashboard?corpname=preloaded%2Ffiliochttcdv1 ''Irish Syllabic Poetry'' corpus]
:* corpus of Classical Gaelic bardic poetry
:* part-of-speech tagged (although very imperfect since based on tagging method for modern Irish)
:* uses non-normalized spelling (so finding a form might be difficult sometimes)
:* based on [https://bardic.celt.dias.ie/ Bardic Poetry Database]
:* uses [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketch_Engine Sketch Engine]
* [http://corpas.ria.ie ''Historical Irish Corpus''] (corpus RIA) – mainly a Modern Irish corpus, but also useful for Early Modern texts and sometimes bardic poetry since it contains texts from 1600 and later, see under [[#Irish|Irish]]