Swedish Diachronic Corpus

On this page, you may download Swedish diachronic corpus resources in two formats:

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Tab-separated format with one word on each line, blank lines separating sentences, and with holders for linguistic annotation in the tab-separated fields. These types of files may be imported into Microsoft Excel or similar programs.

At the top of each file, metadata information such as author, title, publication date, source, licence etc is given. More information on the different corpus resources is also available on the Metadata page.

A list of all the texts included in the corpus is available on the Contents page.

Download diachronic resources, sorted by genre

Court

Genre	Time Period	#words	Download		Info
court records	1451–1779	2,228,374	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
parish meetings	1615–1862	666,240	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
sentences (in the judicial sense)	1981–2009	32,647,599	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
tänkeböcker	1381–1626	2,211,106	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]

Governmental

Genre	Time Period	#words	Download		Info
administrative authorities (easy-to-read)	2011–2015	51,366	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
European Parliament proceedings	1996–2011	33,406,922	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
party platforms and election manifestos	1887–2010	821,860	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: registers (subject indexes, personal data)	1809–1970	14,388,695	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: Ståndsriksdagen – acts	1521–1734	3,882,680	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: Ståndsriksdagen – appendixes	1809–1863	63,309,295	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: Ståndsriksdagen – bourgeois	1654–1866	34,729,101	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: Ståndsriksdagen – clergy	1642–1863	29,853,667	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: Ståndsriksdagen – farmers	1600–1863	31,441,334	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: Ståndsriksdagen – nobility	1627–1863	62,968,509	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: Ståndsriksdagen – resolutions	1529–1812	330,826	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: Tvåkammarriksdagen – bills	1867–1970	309,871,964	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: Tvåkammarriksdagen – code of statutes	1967–1970	82,713	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: Tvåkammarriksdagen – investigations	1867–1922	56,667,848	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: Tvåkammarriksdagen – letters ('skrivelser')	1867–1970	28,612,175	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: Tvåkammarriksdagen – memorials	1867–1970	189,496,341	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: Tvåkammarriksdagen – proposals	1867–1970	71,287,444	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: Tvåkammarriksdagen – protocols	1867–1970	322,724,129	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: Tvåkammarriksdagen – registers	1867–1970	21,526,279	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: Tvåkammarriksdagen – regulations	1867–1958	2,495,573	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Riksdagstryck: Tvåkammarriksdagen – reports	1867–1970	57,051,214	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: accounts	1998–2016	13,760,729	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: agendas	2004–2016	416,235	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: bills	1971–2016	316,415,621	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: Chamber	2011–2016	3,470,712	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: committee documents	1998–2016	39,139,502	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: committee statements	1971–2016	8,114,245	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: EU board	2000–2016	2,957,171	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: European Commission	2003–2014	45,584,621	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: interpellations	1999–2016	17,989,768	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: investigations	1960–2016	20,436,551	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: letters	2005–2016	112,737	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: meetings	2011–2016	28,562	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: memorandums	2003–2016	2,728,607	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: ministries	1992–2016	38,539,782	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: miscellaneous	2005–2016	15,398,056	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: proposals	1970–2016	140,240,619	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: protocols	1971–2016	227,297,730	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: public investigations	1995–2016	204,413,280	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: questions	1996–2016	12,682,785	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: reports	1971–2016	192,884,706	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: speaker lists	2004–2016	165,929	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
The Riksdag's open data: speeches	1993–2018	121,987,537	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]

Informal

Genre	Time Period	#words	Download		Info
diaries	1640–1888	729,705	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
folklore	1900–1929	1,087,994	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
personal stories	1962 –	14,988	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]

Laws and regulations

Genre	Time Period	#words	Download		Info
by-laws	1279–1801	13,894	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
church regulations	1275–1686	133,429	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
laws	1203–2012	10,778,662	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]

Letters and charters

Genre	Time Period	#words	Download		Info
charters	1208–1512	967,228	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
letter correspondences, miscellaneous	1531–1893	214,464	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
letters written by Anna Vasa (princess)	1591–1612	8,550	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
letters written by August Strindberg (author)	1858–1912	1,507,958	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
letters written by Gustav Vasa (king)	1521–1525	253,642	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
letters written by Johan Ekeblad (courtier)	1639–1655	52,253	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
letters written by Jon Stålhammar (military)	1700–1708	49,264	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
letters written by Wiliam Peterson-Berger (composer) to Helga Englund	1902–1925	19,601	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
letters written by/to Carl von Linné (scientist)	1727–1778	130,072	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]

Lyrics

Genre	Time Period	#words	Download		Info
song lyrics	1812–1934	1,145,268	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]

Newspapers

Genre	Time Period	#words	Download		Info
8 sidor (easy-to-read)	2002–2017	2,832,875	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Aftonbladet	1830–1849	92,797,161	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Alfwar och Skämt	1840–1849	806,252	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Barometern	1840–1899	127,954,510	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Blekingsposten	1850–1889	38,474,722	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Bollnäs Tidning	1870–1889	3,094,176	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Borås Tidning	1830–1899	73,425,990	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Carlscronas Tidningar	1760–1769	145,163	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Carlscronas Wekoblad	1750–1879	57,402,042	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Dagens Nyheter	1987 –	5,122,590	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Dagligt Allehanda	1760–1839	178,988,391	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Dalpilen	1850–1909	65,931,923	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Fahlu Weckoblad	1780–1829	3,527,435	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Falköpings Tidning	1850–1899	58,136,595	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Faluposten	1860–1899	16,243,450	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Folkets röst	1840–1869	27,684,137	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Gotlands Tidning	1860–1889	16,957,678	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning	1830–1899	492,367,090	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Göteborgs Weckoblad	1870–1899	16,264,392	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Göteborgsposten	1850–1899	306,803,162	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Göteborgsposten	1994–2013	270,970,549	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Götheborgs Allehanda	1770–1849	26,429,170	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Götheborgs Weckolista	1740–1759	512,793	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Götheborgska Nyheter	1760–1849	12,010,332	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Härnösandsposten	1840–1899	86,317,975	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Inrikes Tidningar	1760–1829	34,567,748	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Jönköpingsbladet	1840–1879	36,853,196	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Jönköpingsposten	1870–1899	70,936,664	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Kalmar	1860–1909	135,245,605	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Karlshamns Allehanda	1840–1899	78,121,776	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Karlskrona Weckoblad	1870–1899	44,800,106	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Kristianstadsbladet	1850–1899	93,483,214	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Lindesbergs Allehanda	1870–1889	2,499,583	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Lunds Weckoblad	1770–1899	97,351,609	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Malmö Allehanda	1820–1899	95,935,873	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Nerikes Allehanda	1840–1899	132,690,284	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
news annals	1923–1958	1,528,935	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
news from websites (DN and SvD)	2001–2013	271,806,916	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Norrländska Korrespondenten	1850–1879	24,933,041	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Norden	1850–1869	2,052,494	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Norra Skane	1880–1899	30,812,486	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Norrbottenskuriren	1860–1899	40,991,285	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Norrbottensposten	1840–1899	28,104,280	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Norrköpingskuriren	1850–1869	6,136,982	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Norrköpings Tidningar	1780–1899	234,855,313	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Norrköpings Weckotidningar	1750–1789	2,673,493	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Norrlandsposten	1880–1889	1,979,114	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Nya Dagligt Allehanda	1850–1899	395,271,236	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Nya Karlskrona Weckoblad	1870–1879	737,697	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Nya Wermlandstidningen	1850–1899	96,491,686	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Nya Wexjobladet	1840–1899	65,362,503	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Nytt Allvar och skamt	1840–1859	2,873,083	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Nytt och Gammalt	1780–1819	3,802,300	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Post- och Inrikestidningar	1820–1839	48,909,639	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Posttidningar	1800–1829	18,368,109	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Press 65	1965 –	1,119,449	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Press 76	1976 –	1,348,116	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Press 95	1995 –	7,671,700	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Press 96	1996 –	6,516,030	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Press 97	1997 –	13,703,279	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Press 98	1998 –	10,740,849	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Stockholms Dagblad	1820–1899	620,772,157	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Stockholmsposten	1770–1839	41,424,671	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Sundsvalls Tidning	1880–1899	54,467,965	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Tidning för Wenersborgs stad och län	1840–1899	73,526,430	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Umebladet	1840–1899	42,122,354	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Upsala	1840–1899	111,674,879	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Vestmanlands Läns Tidning	1830–1899	85,461,338	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Wermlands Läns Tidning	1870–1879	13,133,694	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Wermlandstidningen	1840–1859	3,530,848	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Wernamo Tidning	1870–1889	5,424,123	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Wexjobladet	1810–1859	9,603,967	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Östergötlands Veckoblad	1880–1899	12,687,430	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Östgöta Correspondenten	1830–1869	45,882,527	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Östgötaposten	1900–1909	5,959,023	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]

Pamphlets

Genre	Time Period	#words	Download		Info
political pamphlets	1769–1810	76,000	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]

Periodicals

Genre	Time Period	#words	Download		Info
culture	1881–1890	1,995,149	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
medicine	1996–2010	21,733,737	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
politics and economy	1891–1940	7,202,567	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
popular science	1992–1996	743,831	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
satire	1732–1734	245,253	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
women and society	1886–1936	74,948,958	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]

Religion

Genre	Time Period	#words	Download		Info
bible texts	1400–1873	2,010,691	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
hymns	1937 –	163,574	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
postils	1200–1500	116,394	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
prayers	1475–1499	7,677	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
religious prose (legends, revelations etc.)	1350–1928	1,341,367	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]

Scientific and academic text (incl. medicine)

Genre	Time Period	#words	Download		Info
agriculture	1516–1778	71,801	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
astrology	1440–1525	7,665	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
humanities	1799–2012	14,800,826	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
medicine	1350–1522	111,300	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
natural science	1889–1908	147,586	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
protocols (Academic Consistory of Uppsala University)	1624–1699	5,524,546	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
social sciences	1896–2012	10,902,639	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]

Secular prose

Genre	Time Period	#words	Download		Info
autobiographies, biographies, memoirs	1665–1952	1,792,467	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
children's literature, fairytales, fables	1845–1943	1,086,344	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
drama	1600–1959	3,649,013	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
essays	1932–1962	82,509	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
fiction, miscellaneous	1303–2006	26,569,859	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
folkore, folk-tales, mythology	1380–1908	745,088	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
humour	1675–1935	173,484	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
non-fiction, miscellaneous	1330–2008	3,508,410	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
novels	1809–2002	29,118,755	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
poetry	1700–1937	2,846,564	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
proverbs, aphorisms	1375–1919	37,389	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
short stories	1834–2017	4,547,357	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
speeches	1786–1939	280,012	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]

Student writings

Genre	Time Period	#words	Download		Info
social science	2009	541,568	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]

User-generated Text

Genre	Time Period	#words	Download		Info
blogs	1998–2017	580,629,990	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Familjeliv	2003 –	6,348,228	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Familjeliv	2004 –	89,436,734	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Familjeliv	2005 –	215,057,154	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Familjeliv	2006 –	434,794,156	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Familjeliv	2007 –	589,212,399	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Familjeliv	2008 –	579,828,315	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Familjeliv	2009 –	554,095,836	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Familjeliv	2010 –	385,082,563	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Familjeliv	2011 –	337,252,059	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Familjeliv	2012 –	271,207,702	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Familjeliv	2013 –	193,881,884	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Familjeliv	2014 –	129,190,898	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Familjeliv	2015 –	82,672,255	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Familjeliv	2016 –	59,596,195	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Familjeliv	2017 –	35,487,461	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2000 –	5,594,995	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2001 –	5,390,869	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2002 –	10,466,574	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2003 –	11,688,688	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2004 –	43,748,505	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2005 –	73,820,010	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2006 –	110,418,145	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2007 –	155,741,098	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2008 –	217,934,664	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2009 –	270,512,101	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2010 –	326,690,783	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2011 –	337,564,764	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2012 –	326,879,191	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2013 –	296,287,432	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2014 –	260,038,731	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2015 –	220,408,308	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2016 –	202,485,545	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Internet forum: Flashback	2017 –	38,906,575	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]
Swedish Wikipedia	2017 –	370,211,509	[txt]	[anno]	[readme]

For questions or comments, or if you are aware of any corpus resource that could be included in the Swedish Diachronic Corpus, don't hesitate to contact us!

Eva Pettersson	Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University	eva.pettersson@lingfil.uu.se
Lars Borin	Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg	lars.borin@svenska.gu.se

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