CLDF dataset derived from Greenhill et al.'s "Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database" from 2020 focusing on Oceanic languages

How to cite

If you use these data please cite

• the original source

  Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• the derived dataset using the DOI of the particular released version you were using

Description

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

Available online at https://abvd.shh.mpg.de/austronesian/

Conceptlists in Concepticon:

• Blust-2008-210

Notes

Notes:

Making a Nexus File:

You will need to have the lexibank dataset installed. Probably best outside the directory:

# set up and install a virtual environment
python -m venv env
source ./env/bin/activate

# clone git repository
git clone https://github.com/lexibank/abvdoceanic

# or update repository
cd abvd_oceanic
git checkout main
git pull
cd ..

# install dataset
cd abvd_oceanic
pip install -e .
cd ..

To make a nexus file, use the custom abvdoceanic.nexus in cldfbench. The parameters are:

• --output=/path/to/filename.nex = the output file to write.
• --ascertainment={token} add BEASTs ascertainment correction if you want.
• • overall - one ascertainment character added for overall correction.
• • word - per word ascertainment correction.
• --removecombined={int} - set level at which to filter combined cognates.

# make a nexus file, with combined cognates removed above level 2:
cldfbench abvdoceanic.nexus --removecombined 2 --output abvdoceanic.nex

# ...with per-word ascertainment correction:
cldfbench abvdoceanic.nexus --ascertainment=word --removecombined 2 --output abvdoceanic.nex

Statistics

• Varieties: 418
• Concepts: 191
• Lexemes: 78,515
• Sources: 0
• Synonymy: 1.14
• Cognacy: 74,236 cognates in 9,490 cognate sets (2,308 singletons)
• Cognate Diversity: 0.12
• Invalid lexemes: 0
• Tokens: 392,172
• Segments: 430 (0 BIPA errors, 0 CLTS sound class errors, 429 CLTS modified)
• Inventory size (avg): 30.58

Possible Improvements:

• Entries missing sources: 78515/78515 (100.00%)

Contributors

Name	GitHub user	Description	Role
Simon J. Greenhill	@SimonGreenhill	maintainer	Author
Johann-Mattis List	@lingulist	orthography profiles	Other

CLDF Datasets

The following CLDF datasets are available in cldf:

• CLDF Wordlist at cldf/cldf-metadata.json