Linguistic Convergence and Divergence of Basque on TikTok: A Multimodal Computational Sociolinguistic Analysis_datasets

This repository contains the datasets used in the study “Linguistic Convergence and Divergence of Basque on TikTok: A Multimodal Computational Sociolinguistic Analysis” The data include four initial video datasets collected from TikTok through keyword-based searches in Basque. Data collection was conducted using the Apify TikTok scraping service, retrieving publicly available video metadata and associated information. The datasets cover two geographical contexts (Spain and France) and are provided in both CSV and Excel formats. The date of data collection is indicated in the corresponding file names. In addition, the repository includes two datasets containing comments posted in response to Basque-language TikTok videos, also collected from TikTok using Apify. These datasets, available in CSV and Excel formats, were used to analyse patterns of linguistic convergence and divergence in video–comment interactions. As with the video datasets, the collection date is specified in the file names. All datasets contain structured metadata (e.g., video identifiers, engagement metrics, timestamps) and textual content necessary for the computational sociolinguistic analyses reported in the article.