Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database

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title
  • Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
creator
  • researcher Robert Blust, Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
subject
  • Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database
subject.linguisticField
  • lexicography
subject.monoMultilingual
  • multilingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • thesaurus
description
  • This database contains 136,140 lexical items from 638 languages spoken throughout the Pacific region. Most of these languages belong to the Austronesian language family.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
  • free
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
description.speechMode
description.samplingRate
description.additionalData
publisher
  • language.psy.auckland.ac.nz
contributor
contributor.attribute.author.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.author.dialect
contributor.attribute.author.level
contributor.attribute.author.age
contributor.attribute.author.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.motherTongue
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
date.created
  • 2003-00-00 2009-00-00
date.issued
date.modified
type
  • Text
type.discourseType
type.linguisticType
  • lexicon
type.purpose
  • lexicography
  • analysis
type.style
type.form
type.sentence
type.annotation
type.annotationSample
type.sample
format.extent
  • 136,140 lexical items
  • 638 languages
  • Number of Word Meanings in Database: 210
format.medium
  • online
format.encoding
format.markup
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
source
language
  • 'Are'are
  • 'Auhelawa
  • Aklanon Aklanon - Bisayan
  • Central Cagayan Agta
  • Yakamul Ali
  • 638languages in total: http://language.psy.auckland.ac.nz/austronesian/language.php?group=*
language.area
  • Oceania the Austronesian language family
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
  • the Pacific region
rights
  • To cite this database, please reference the following paper. Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.