Vanuatu Voices
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Description
Vanuatu Voices presents phonetically-transcribed primary recordings, from numerous villages throughout different islands, to both document and exhibit the extensive variation and unparalleled diversity of the Vanuatu languages.
This dataset is licensed under a CC-BY-NC-4.0 license
Available online at https://vanuatuvoices.clld.org
Statistics
- Varieties: 214
- Concepts: 426
- Lexemes: 39,002
- Sources: 4
- Synonymy: 1.02
- Invalid lexemes: 0
- Tokens: 244,591
- Segments: 239 (0 BIPA errors, 0 CLTS sound class errors, 238 CLTS modified)
- Inventory size (avg): 42.32
Contributors
| Name | GitHub user | Description | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lana Takau | Translated the Vanuatu study into Bislama, edited and transcribed all legacy recordings for Pentecost Island, recorded and transcribed languages from Pentecost and Malekula, assisted with editing and transcription of all languages | Author | |
| Mary Walworth | Coordinator (since 2017) of the Vanuatu study and its expansion from Malekula island to other islands of Vanuatu. Recorded and transcribed data from Emae, Epi, and Efate. Directed fieldworkers to Malekula, Maewo, Ambae, Epi, and Pentecost and obtained legacy recordings for Pentecost Island. | Author | |
| Aviva Shimelman | Recorded and transcribed Malekula languages from 2015 to 2017 | Author | |
| Sandrine Bessis | Recorded and transcribed languages of Epi Island in 2019 | Author | |
| Tom Ennever | Together with Iveth Rodriguez, recorded and transcribed languages from Ambae and Maewo Islands | Author | |
| Iveth Rodriguez | Together with Tom Ennever, recorded and transcribed languages from Ambae and Maewo Islands | Author | |
| Hans-Jörg Bibiko | @Bibiko | Programmer and maintainer of the data repository, assisted with data curation and data converting | Author |
| Daria Dërmaku | Provided audio post-processing and mark-up from 2016-2020 | Author | |
| Murray Garde | Provided the recordings of 6 dialects of the Sa language on Pentecost island | Author | |
| Marie-France Duhamel | Provided the recordings of the Raga and Lolkasai languages on Pentecost island | Author | |
| Giovanni Abete | Provided detailed phonetic transcription for many Malekula languages | Author | |
| Laura Wägerle | Provided audio post-processing and mark-up 2016-2018 | Author | |
| Kaitip W. Kami | Coordinated and assisted with recordings of many Malekula languages | Author | |
| Russell Gray | Co-Director of the Vanuatu Languages and Lifeways project (2016-2018) and Director of the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, which fully supported data collection and processing for the Vanuatu study. | Author | |
| Robert Forkel | @xrotwang | CLDF data conversion | DataCurator |
| Johann-Mattis List | CLDF data conversion and orthography profile creation | Other | |
| Tihomir Rangelov | Provided intellectual support for version 1.2 | Other |
CLDF Datasets
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