Shilluk Lexicography With Audio Data (2nd edition)

This archive represents a resource on the lexicon of Shilluk, a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in South Sudan. It includes a table of 2853 lexicographic items, plus 10082 sound clips. The table is included in pdf and MS Word formats; the sound clips are in wav format (recorded with Shure SM10A headset mounted microphone and and Marantz PMD 660/661 solid state recorder, at a sampling frequency of 48kHz and a bit depth of 16). For each entry, we present: (a) the entry form (different for each word class, as explained below); (b) the orthographic representation of the entry form; (c) the paradigm forms and/or example(s); and (d) a description of the meaning. This collection was built up from 2013 onwards. The majority of entries were added between 2015 and 2018, in the context of the project “A descriptive analysis of the Shilluk language”, funded by the Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2015-055), at the end of which the 1st edition was made archived, with 2530 entires. This second edition, which has 323 entries more than the first edition and a wide range of detail-level corrections and improvements, is published after the completion of the project “Suprasegmentals in three West Nilotic languages, again funded by the Leverhulme Trust (RPG-2020-040). A detailed description appears in the introduction to the dataset document.