Zuberera Dialect Text Corpus

The Zuberera Dialect Text Corpus (ZDC) is a two-year collection and curation effort focusing on textual materials produced by speakers of Zuberera, a peripheral dialect of Basque. The corpus will include community-contributed stories, narratives, local documents, and online text samples collected with informed consent. Texts will be normalized into UTF-8 encoding, stored in TEI XML formats, and enriched with linguistic annotations (part-of-speech tags, lemmatization, syntactic and semantic layers). Orthographic conventions and editorial decisions will be documented. Potential applications include dialect-aware language modeling, translation, sociolinguistic research, and educational resources for community language learning. Intended audiences include computational linguists, corpus linguists, educators, and dialect-speaking communities.