LAG001 - Laganyan Ma'ya - Basic vocabulary (landscape, plants, animals)

This dataset contains elicited basic vocabulary from the Laganyan dialect of Ma'ya with Arfus Saleo (born 1979), a native speaker of Laganyan Ma'ya. The words cover the semantic domains of landscape, plants, and animals (corresponding to the items in green ink on pages 16-26 in the Fieldnotes); all words were recorded in isolation, utterance-final, and utterance-medial context. The conversation was recorded on 1 March 2023, in Waisai (Southwest Papua province, Indonesia). This dataset relates to the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 'Synchronic and diachronic investigations in Raja Ampat-South Halmahera, a little-known subbranch of Austronesian'. Further deposits are available in the related DataShare sub-community (https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8573).