If you use these data please cite
- the original source
Koelle, Sigismund W. (1854). Polyglotta Africana or Comparative Vocabulary of Nearly Three Hundred Words and Phrases in more than One Hundred Distinct African Languages. London: Church Missionary House.
- the derived dataset using the DOI of the particular released version you were using
This dataset is licensed under a CC-BY-4.0 license
Conceptlists in Concepticon:
The digital data was obtained from the RefLex database (Reference Lexicon of Africa) edited by G. Ségérer (https://reflex.cnrs.fr/).
Polyglotta Africana covers almost 200 language varieties from 8 language families.
See cldf/README.md for a description of the tables and columns and the entity-relationship diagram for how they relate.
Thus, displaying words as listed in the book - i.e. with a concept as column and varieties as rows - can be done - for example using the tools of the csvkit package - as follows:
$ csvjoin -c Language_ID,ID cldf/forms.csv cldf/languages.csv | csvgrep -c Parameter_ID -m 1_one | csvcut -c Language_ID,Name,Form,Segments | csvformat -T
Language_ID Name Form Segments
I-A-1 Fúlup fánọd f á/a n o˞ d
I-A-2 Fī́lham ánod á/a n o d
I-B-1 Bṓla pulólo p u l ó/o l o
I-B-2 Sárār pulálan· p u l á/a l a n
I-B-3 Pẹ́pẹ̄l olón· o l ó/o n
I-B-3 Pẹ́pẹ̄l olón·olón· o l ó/o n o l ó/o n
I-B-3 Pẹ́pẹ̄l púlon· p ú/u l o n
I-B-4 Kányōp púlọ̄́lẹ p ú/u l o˞ː l e˞
...
- Varieties: 200 (linked to 158 different Glottocodes)
- Concepts: 319 (linked to 263 different Concepticon concept sets)
- Lexemes: 57,593
- Sources: 1
- Synonymy: 1.11
- Invalid lexemes: 0
- Tokens: 347,295
- Segments: 93 (0 BIPA errors, 0 CLTS sound class errors, 93 CLTS modified)
- Inventory size (avg): 45.45
| Name | GitHub user | Description | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sigismund Koelle | author | Author | |
| Guillaume Segerer | maintainer | Editor, DataCurator | |
| Robert Forkel | @xrotwang | patron, code | Editor |
| Johann-Mattis List | @lingulist | patron, code | Editor |
| Tiago Tresoldi | @tresoldi | profile, code | Other |
The following CLDF datasets are available in cldf:
- CLDF Wordlist at cldf/cldf-metadata.json