Swedish Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research

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The Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research, (in Swedish Språk- och folkminnesinstitutet, but commonly referred to by the acronym SOFI) is a Swedish government agency with the purpose to study and collect materials concerning dialects, folklore and onomastics.

In june 2006 the swedish government decided to centralize the swedish language preservation institutes, starting on the first of july 2006, and at the same time rename the institute to the Institute for Language and Folklore (in Swedish Institutet för Språk och Folkminnen).

The Institute consists of several, originally independent, units, located in different Swedish university towns. The central unit of the Institute is located in Uppsala, with other departments located to Lund, Gothenburg and Umeå.

The institute is, among other things, responsible for the ongoing publication of Sveriges ortnamn (a dictionary of all Swedish placenames) and Sveriges medeltida personnamn (a dictionary of medieval Swedish personal names).

[edit] Units of the Institute

  • The Department of Dialectology, Uppsala (Dialektavdelningen, DA)
  • The Archive for Dialects and Placenames in Lund (Dialekt- och ortnamnsarkivet i Lund, DAL)
  • The Archive for Dialects, Placenames and Folklore in Gothenburg (Dialekt-, ortnamns- och folkminnesarkivet i Göteborg, DAG)
  • The Archive for Dialects, Placenames and Folklore in Umeå (Dialekt-, ortnamns- och folkminnesarkivet i Umeå, DAUM)
  • The Department of Folklore Research, Uppsala (Folkminnesavdelningen, FA)
  • The Phonogram Unit, Uppsala (Fonogramenheten)
  • The Department of Onomastics, Uppsala (Namnavdelning, NA).

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