KAW002 - Kawe Ma'ya - Basic words (people, body parts, verbs, numbers, qualities, cultural items)

This dataset contains elicited basic vocabulary from the Kawe dialect of Ma'ya with Yulius Ayello (born 1978), a native speaker of Kawe Ma'ya. The words cover the semantic domains of people, body parts, verbs, numbers, qualities, and cultural items (corresponding to the items in black ink on pages 26-42 in the Fieldnotes); all words were recorded in isolation, utterance-final, and utterance-medial context. The conversation was recorded on 28 February 2023 in Waisai (Southwest Papua province, Indonesia). This dataset relates to the 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).