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List of lexemes with bilabial trills in the languages of Malekula Island in Vanuatu

<p>This is a tab separated value file (.tsv) of examples of lexemes with bilabial trills from languages of Malekula Island in Vanuatu. Each lexeme is linked to a language name, Glottocode, the type of trill that is found in the lexeme, a gloss, source, and in some cases, an additional note.</p> <p>This file constitutes&nbsp;Appendix B of the article:</p> <p><strong>Rangelov, Tihomir &amp; Mary Walworth &amp; Julie Barbour. 2023. <em>A multifaceted approach to understanding unexpected sound change: The bilabial trills of Vanuatu&rsquo;s Malekula Island</em>. Diachronica.&nbsp;</strong><a href="https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.21051.ran">https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.21051.ran</a>&nbsp;</p> <p>This database contains:</p> <ul> <li>&bull;1349 words from 23 Malekula languages</li> <li>&bull;1272 examples of ᵐʙ</li> <li>&bull;77 examples of ᴩ (ʙ̥)</li> </ul> <p>UTF-8 encoding.</p> <p>ᴩ stands for plain voiceless bilabial trill [ʙ̥].</p> <p>Morpheme boundaries are marked by an n-dash (-).</p> <p>VV = Vanuatu Voices.</p> <p>A list of references can be found in the article.&nbsp;</p> <p>The spelling of the original words has been modified here as much as possible to be closer to IPA: prenasalization and labialization are marked as superscripts, j has been changed to tʃ, etc.&nbsp;</p> <p>This list was curated by Tihomir Rangelov. Some unpublished data were provided by their authors, as indicated.</p> <p>This version of the database as of 26 APRIL 2022.</p>

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