SAL015 - Tepin Salawati - Basic words (landscape, plants, animals; Speaker: Barnabus Sawoy)

This dataset contains elicited basic vocabulary from the Tepin dialect of Salawati with Barnabus Sawoy (born 1950), a native speaker of Tepin Salawati. The words cover the semantic domains of landscape, plants, and animals (corresponding to the items in black ink on pages 16-26 in the Fieldnotes); all words are recorded in isolation, utterance-final, and utterance-medial context. The session was recorded on 14 March 2023, in Solol village (Salawati island, Raja Ampat 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 British Academy Small Grant (SG1920\100342). Further deposits are available in the related DataShare sub-community (https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8573).