LAG002 - Laganyan Maˈya - Basic words (humans, body parts, verbs, numbers, qualities, cultural items)

This dataset contains elicited basic vocabulary from the Laganyan dialect of Maˈya with Arfus Saleo (born 1979), a native speaker of Laganyan Maˈya. The words cover the semantic domains of humans, body parts, verbs, numbers, qualities, and cultural items (corresponding to the items in green ink on pages 26-42 in the Fieldnotes); all words were recorded in isolation, utterance-final, and utterance-medial context. The conversation was recorded on 2 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).