Bantu Basic Vocabulary Database

registration: 2009/08/22 05:48:07, last modified: 2009/08/22 05:55:32
title
  • Bantu Basic Vocabulary Database
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
creator
  • developer University of Auckland
subject
  • Bantu Language Database
subject.linguisticField
  • lexicography
subject.monoMultilingual
  • multilingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • thesaurus
description
  • This database contains 4,254 lexical items from 10 Bantu languages.
    Each language in our database has around 430 words associated with it. These words correspond to basic items of vocabulary, such as simple verbs like 'to hear', or 'to dance', the names of body parts like brain or mouth, colors like red, numbers (1, 2, 3, 4) and kinship terms such as Wife, Grandfather and Person. The full list is here.
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
  • University of Auckland
contributor
  • researcher Russell Gray, Associate-Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Auckland
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
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
  • This database contains 4,254 lexical items from 10 Bantu languages
format.medium
  • online
format.encoding
format.markup
format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
source
language
  • Asu (Tanzania)
  • Basa (Cameroon) Basaa
  • Bemba (Zambia)
  • Nyamwezi Kinyamwezi
  • Bukusu
  • Koyo
  • Lega-Shabunda
  • Diriku
  • Tswana
  • Yao
language.area
  • Africa
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
rights
  • Please do not cite anything in this database without the authors' permission.
  • Contact us by email with any queries, comments or suggestions: Simon Greenhill