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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>I would like to call your attention to the “<strong>Kiel South Asian Typological Database</strong>”, which we have just published in its present form online under: <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/7153825">https://zenodo.org/record/7153825</a></p>
<p>The database was compiled within the framework of the project “Towards a linguistic prehistory of eastern central South Asia (and beyond)”, financed by the German Research Council (DFG, Project Grant 326697274), which we would like to thank here for its generous support.</p>
<p>The database includes information on up to 237 features for over 40 languages from the Indo-Aryan, Munda and Dravidian families, as well as the isolates Kusunda and Nihali. Of these 237 features, 98 derive from the <span><a href="https://glottobank.org/#grambank">GramBank</a></span> database of the <span><a href="https://glottobank.org/">Glottobank</a></span> research consortium and were compiled by the members of our project in cooperation with that project. We include here only those 98 features from that database which we felt to be of particular relevance for South Asia. In the features list contained in the database, a description of all features and their respective primary areas of the grammar are given for orientation.</p>
<p>Due to the focus of our project, priority was given to the languages of eastern and central South Asia, South of the Himalayas, although we have included South Asian languages from other regions as well where this was feasible during our project. Unfortunately, for practical reasons, no Tibeto-Burman/Trans-Himalayan languages have yet been included.</p>
<p>Of course, no database is ever really finished, and we are constantly adding new information to the database. We have therefore decided to publish the database in its present form and update it as new data become available. All changes will be clearly documented.</p>
<p>These data may be freely used in scientific research under the following two conditions:</p>
<p>- That you properly cite this database, including the following information:</p>
<p>Ivani, Jessica Katiuscia, Peterson, John & Chevallier, Lennart. 2022. <em>The Kiel South Asian Typological Database.</em> [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7153825]. [Date of last access].</p>
<p>- That you inform us in the event of incorrect data in the table, should you find any, so that we can recheck these ourselves. We would also be grateful if you would send us a copy of your work using these data.</p>
<p>We welcome input on the data from experts in the languages contained in this database and on further languages of the subcontinent!</p>
<p>Best,<br />John</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">John Peterson<br />Linguistik und Phonetik (ISFAS)<br />Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel<br />Olshausenstraße 40<br />D-24098 Kiel<br />Germany<br /><br /><br />Tel.: (+49) (0)431-880 2414<br />Fax: (+49) (0)431-880 7405<br /><br /><a href="http://www.isfas.uni-kiel.de/de/linguistik/mitarbeitende/john-peterson" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.isfas.uni-kiel.de/de/linguistik/mitarbeitende/john-peterson</a><br /><br />"Nós temos duas vidas e a segunda começa quando você percebe que você só tem uma…" (Mário de Andrade)<br />"We have two lives and the second begins when you realize that you only have one..."</div>
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