SAL014 - Tepin Salawati - Basic vocabulary (landscape, plants, animals, humans, verbs, numerals, qualities, cultural items; Speaker: Selfsina Dimara)

This dataset contains elicited basic vocabulary from the Tepin dialect of Salawati with Selfsina Dimara (year of birth unknown, possibly 1960s), a native speaker of Tepin Salawati who has lived for several years in Yenenas village on Batanta island (where Batta and the Kafdaron dialect of Biak are spoken). All words are recorded in isolation, utterance-final, and utterance-medial context; they cover the semantic domains of landscape, plants, animals, humans, verbs, numerals, qualities, and cultural items. The session was recorded on 17 December 2019, in Yenenas village (Batanta island, Raja Ampat regency, 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' (PF19\100004); additional fieldwork funds were provided by a Moray Endowment Fund from the University of Edinburgh. Further deposits are available in the related DataShare sub-community (https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8573).