MOI002 - Moi - Basic words (Speaker: Yance Sani)

This dataset contains elicited basic vocabulary from Moi with Yance Sani (born 1959), a native speaker of Moi. Words were recorded in isolation, utterance-final, and utterance-medial context; they cover the semantic domains of landscape, plants, animals, humans, verbs, numbers, and cultural items. The session was recorded on 9 January 2020, in Asbaken village (Sorong 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 Grant from the University of Edinburgh. Further deposits are available in the related DataShare sub-community (https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8573).