[An-lang] Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database

[Simon Greenhill]

Kia ora and Good Morning,

We would like to announce the existence of an Austronesian Basic
Vocabulary Database at http://language.psy.auckland.ac.nz

This database currently contains 52,319 lexical items from 282
Austronesian languages (including some protolanguages such as PAN and
PMP). These items have been taken from the modified Swadesh lists
collected by Bob Blust over the last 20 years. Additional material has
been added from the Pollex database compiled by Bruce Biggs and Ross
Clark. We've been working on this database for about a year now, and
rather than keeping this resource to ourselves, we thought we should
make it more generally available.

The site allows you to:
+ display all the words from a language,
+ display all the words from a selected meaning category,
+ search for specific forms
+ display the languages classified by the SIL ethnologue system
+ display a family tree of the languages
+ display the cognate sets within each meaning category

We would love to hear any suggestions you have, and welcome any
assistance in fixing transcription errors, filling in the gaps,
correcting the preliminary cognate judgments and adding new languages.

Many thanks,
Simon Greenhill, Russell Gray, and Bob Blust.

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