ASZ010 - As - Basic vocabulary (animals, cultural items, qualities, numerals, humans)

This dataset contains elicited basic vocabulary from As with Nurma Kapitanlaut (year of birth unknown, possibly in the 1920s or 1930s), a native speaker of As. The words cover the semantic domains of animals, cultural items, qualities, numerals, and humans (corresponding to items in green ink on pages 22-28 and 37-42 of the Fieldnotes). As far as possible, the words were recorded in isolation, utterance-final, and utterance-medial context; however, the speaker was in poor health at the time, so this was not always possible. The session was recorded on 30 March 2023, in Suprau village (Southwest Papua province, Indonesia). The recording of the session is split over two audio files, ASZ010-01 and ASZ010-02. 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@004); additional fieldwork funds were provided by a British Academy Small Grant (SG1920@342). Further deposits are available in the related DataShare sub-community (https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8573).