Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

How to cite

If you use these data please cite this dataset using the DOI of the particular released version you were using

Description

This dataset is licensed under a CC-BY-4.0 license

Notes

The goal of this work is to create a comparative dictionary […] as the primary source of historical data on the entire Austronesian language family.

• ABOUT.md provides the introduction to the legacy online version of the ACD at https://trussel2.com/ACD/ formatted as markdown document.
• USAGE.md describes tools and techniques which help with using the highly relational data of the ACD.
• VALIDATION.md describes how our dataset was validated, in particular with respect to completeness and correctness of the conversion from the legacy HTML pages.

Statistics

• Varieties: 1,063 (linked to 820 different Glottocodes)
• Concepts: 86,502 (linked to 0 different Concepticon concept sets)
• Lexemes: 146,733
• Sources: 454
• Synonymy: 1.01
• Cognacy: 121,682 cognates in 10,857 cognate sets (5 singletons)
• Cognate Diversity: -1.26

Possible Improvements:

• Entries missing sources: 38249/146733 (26.07%)

Contributors

Name | GitHub user | Role --- | --- | --- Robert Blust | | author Stephen Trussel | | author Robert Forkel | @xrotwang | DataCurator, author Alexander D. Smith | @The-Austronesianist | author

CLDF Datasets

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• CLDF Wordlist at cldf/cldf-metadata.json