WAU004 - Wauyai Ma'ya - Basic words (numbers, qualities, verbs)

This dataset contains elicited basic vocabulary from the Wauyai dialect of Ma'ya with Daniel Gaman (born 1960), a native speaker of Wauyai Ma'ya. The words cover the semantic domains of numbers, qualities, and some verbs (corresponding to the items on pages 37-40 and 33-34 in the Fieldnotes); all words were recorded in isolation, utterance-final, and utterance-medial context. The session was recorded on 17 February 2023, in Waimalata hamlet (Waigeo 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'. Further deposits are available in the related DataShare sub-community (https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8573).