[Lingtyp] Kiel South Asian Typological Database

[John Peterson]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to call your attention to the "Kiel South Asian Typological 
Database", which we have just published in its present form online 
under: https://zenodo.org/record/7153825

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.

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 GramBank [1] database of the Glottobank [2] 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.

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.

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.

These data may be freely used in scientific research under the following 
two conditions:

- That you properly cite this database, including the following 
information:

Ivani, Jessica Katiuscia, Peterson, John & Chevallier, Lennart. 2022. 
_The Kiel South Asian Typological Database._ 
[https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7153825]. [Date of last access].

- 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.

We welcome input on the data from experts in the languages contained in 
this database and on further languages of the subcontinent!

Best,
John

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John Peterson
Linguistik und Phonetik (ISFAS)
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Olshausenstraße 40
D-24098 Kiel
Germany

Tel.: (+49) (0)431-880 2414
Fax: (+49) (0)431-880 7405

http://www.isfas.uni-kiel.de/de/linguistik/mitarbeitende/john-peterson

"Nós temos duas vidas e a segunda começa quando você percebe que você só 
tem uma…" (Mário de Andrade)
"We have two lives and the second begins when you realize that you only 
have one..."

Links:
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[1] https://glottobank.org/#grambank
[2] https://glottobank.org/
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