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Dear Manfred and colleagues<br>
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The online lexical database LexiRumah has the word for butterfly in about 160 minority languages of Eastern Indonesia, Austronesian and Papuan,<span id="ms-outlook-android-cursor"></span> see<br>
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<a href="https://lexirumah.model-ling.eu/parameters"></a><a href="https://lexirumah.model-ling.eu/parameters">https://lexirumah.model-ling.eu/parameters</a><br>
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Best,<br>
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Marian</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> An-lang <an-lang-bounces@anu.edu.au> on behalf of Kienpointner, Manfred <Manfred.Kienpointner@uibk.ac.at><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 4, 2022 4:02:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> an-lang@anu.edu.au <an-lang@anu.edu.au><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [An-lang] Butterfly words in Austronesian languages: Request for help</font>
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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
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<p>I was advised to register in this mail forum by my colleague Gunter Senft. I would like to ask you for help concerning the following project:</p>
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<p>I am a retired professor of general and applied linguistics (Univ. of Innsbruck, Austria). Among my research areas are rhetoric and argumentation and contrastive linguistics (Latin-German, Turkish-German).
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<p>Besides, I am writing a popular booklet about general names for "butterfly" in 200 languages. With this project, I would like to draw the attention of interested lay people to the endangered status of both these charming creatures and many small indigenous
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<p>Of course, I am not competent as far as the vast majority of these 200 languages is concerned. That is why I ask native speakers and experts for help and to have a controlling look at my data, which I collected from dictionaries, grammars, articles, and
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<p>All in all, I have data from 11 Austronesian languages, including Bahasa Indonesian, Tagalog, Cebuano, Maori, Malagasy, Samoan, Fijian and Hawaiian.
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<p>If some of you could help me, I would like to send you the data of the respective language(s).</p>
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<p>Best regards and a happy new year 2022, take care,</p>
Manfred Kienpointner</div>
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