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Supplementary material accompanying "Factoring lexical and phonetic phylogenetic characters from word lists"

This repository contains the scripts and the data that were used to run the analyses for the paper "Factoring lexical and phonetic phylogenetic characters from word lists". For details, please refer to the README.md file provided along with the dataset. If you run into problems replicating the analysis, please do not hesitate to contact the authors.

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A list of Swedish words that have experienced historical semantic changes

This list contains a set of Swedish words that have experienced semantic change during the past centuries. The list has been collected during the VR funded project <a href="https://languagechange.org/">Towards Computational Lexical Semantic Change Detection</a>, ( 2018-01184) and is a work in progress. Because the work is currently on pause, we have chosen to release the list as is in the hope of facilitating collaboration and use in other research. The list has four columns in the following format: <pre><code>Ord*, Vilken betydelseförändring har skett*, När skedde förändringen, Källor (exv SAOL) word, what change occurred, when the change occur, reference</code></pre> Not all fields are filled for every word. Where there are multiple change periods, there are multiple lines with empty values for word and what change occurred, see the example with egendomlig below. <pre><code>egendomlig,som utgör (ngns) egendom > karaktäristisk (positiv) > speciell (negativt!!),"A. Sen 1600tal, ",SAOB ,,B. Sen 1850, ,,"C. Sen ??, efter 190",</code></pre> The .xlsx file contains links to the references. The resources are freely available for education, research and other non-commercial purposes.

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Kusunda 250 Word List Audio Files

This data set contains 2 zip files and 3 pdf files containing the cut sound files of the elicited 250-concept word list (plus numerous additional concepts and lexical items) recorded with the last two Kusunda speakers from Nepal, Gyani Maiya Sen Kusunda and Kamala Khatri (Sen Kusunda), on in late July and early August 2019, in Kathmandu, Nepal. As per our knowledge, these are the first recordings of Kusunda that are available in the public domain. The zip files, when unpacked, will reveal several hundreds of cut sound files. At least the concepts from the list are triple repeated. There are also numerous additional concepts on recording. The pdf files contain explanations regarding the elicited concepts as well as the way in which the forms of the two speakers were used to come to an underlying form, a 'reconstruction' of some sorts.  The file numbers of the individual sound files refer to both the speakers (GM, K), to the date of recording and the exact origin file number. More information regarding a certain concept or pronunciation can be found in these respective origin sound files. Please note that the actual transcriptions in IPA may differ between the file names of the individual sound recordings, the individual speaker's pdf file, and the aggregated pdf file. We request users of these data to take the transcriptions in the aggregated pdf file as the most recent ones, or alternatively contact us for the most recent, updated transcriptions. This research was funded by a 2,000 USD grant from the Endangered Language Fund (<a href="http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/">http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/</a>), a 700 euro contribution by the European Research Council Starting Grant 715618 “Computer-Assisted Language Comparison” (<a href="http://calc.digling.org/">http://calc.digling.org</a>), and a total of 2,320 euros raised through crowdfunding at GoFundMe (<a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/saving-the-kusunda-language-in-nepal">https://www.gofundme.com/f/saving-the-kusunda-language-in-nepal</a>). Many thanks to all generous contributors. This material is made freely available to everyone for informative or scientific purposes as long as the source (this DOI) / the collectors are properly credited. Please note that use of the material for commercial purposes of any kind, which includes conversion into commercial audio-visual media (documentaries etc.), (paid) public screening other than for educational purposes, storage and dissemination through sites that require registration & payment for access, or sites that rely on advertisement (including YouTube) is not permitted without specific written consent from the speakers and their community, obtained through the collectors of the material. By downloading our material, you agree to these restrictions. This data set falls under the Create Commons Attribution 4.0 International / Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license. This license lets you remix, tweak, and build upon this work non-commercially, as long as you credit us and license your new creations under the identical terms. License Deed on <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/</a>. Legal Code on <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode</a>. We greatly value feedback, suggestions, advice, analysis etc. based on this material which will help in the description of the Kusunda language, especially any comments and suggestions that will enable the revitalisation of the language, including a standardisation of the phonology and a phonologically consistent but also practical orthography in both देवनागरी Devanāgarī and Roman script. Uday Raj Aaley: aarambhkhabar (at) gmail (dot) com Tim Bodt: bodttim (at) gmail (dot) com

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Kam-Niger-Congo comparative word list

This is a comparative word list containing data collected with the Leipzig-Jakarta word list, intended to compare basic vocabulary between Kam and other Niger-Congo languages. It contains reconstructions for a variety of proto-languages already available in the literature (e.g. Jukunoid, Mumuyic, Proto-Bantu, Proto-Gbe, Proto-Potou-Akanic, and Proto-Fula-Sereer), as well as the author's own quasi-reconstructions for Niger-Congo, Benue-Congo, and Delta-Cross and cognate judgements.

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Nyokon word list audio recordings

This deposit contains the original recorded lists of words of the Nyokon language (ISO 639-3: nvo) gathered in the process of writing the following publication:  Lovestrand, Joseph. 2011. Notes on Nyokon phonology (Bantu A.45, Cameroon). SIL Cameroon. http://silcam.org/download.php?stid=&folder=documents&file=Nyokon_notes_phonology-Lovestrand_2011.pdf. A PDF copy of the publication is included in the deposit [Notes on Nyokon phonology - Lovestrand (October 2011).pdf] Rough phonetic transcriptions and annotations of the word lists are in SML format in the file: [Nyokon-dekereke.txt] This file was designed in the freeware Dekereke program, available online at: https://casali.canil.ca/ The audio recordings can be divided into four categories.  1. 1700-item word list Files named with a range of four-digit numbers, e.g. 0001-0005.wav, are the original audio files. The numbers refer to the "SIL comparatige African wordlist". Not all 1700 items were elicted and recorded.  Roberts, James & Keith Snider. 2006. SIL comparative African wordlist (SILCAWL). SIL  Electronic Working Papers 2006-005. 49. http://www.sil.org/silewp/abstract.asp?ref=2006-005 2. Individual words for Dekereke  Files name with a single four-digit number followed by an English gloss, e.g. 0001 body, are audio clips taken from the origial recordings so that the clips can be listened to in the Dekereke program.  Not all words were clipped for this purpose. The recordings of many words are only availabel in the original recordigns. 3. Contrastive Pairs  Files named ContrastivePairs followed by a number are files that were recorded later in the analysis to check on assumed and suspected phonemic contrast. Most of the words repeat those found elsewhere.  4. Consent  There are a number of files recording the oral consent of the Nyokon speakers who participated in the word list elicitation sessions.  As acknolwedged in Lovestrand (2011) the Nyokon speaker who participated are: NGOUNG Isaac (chief of Ambann) NGAGNI Amos Jules (chief of Ahoung) AMBANG Maurice EMBOM Pierre ENAM Samuel FOUTH Brice Rodrigue HEU Emmanuel HEU Paul IMBO Hermine Dorothée KAMANDA Jean Achille KIARI André Jules KOUMA Fanny MBIRNANG Thomas Blaise MOUOL Catherine NGAGNI Emmanuel YAMBASA André

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Pennsylvania German word list (lemmatized and POS-annotated)

The file presents the words used in the Pennsylvania German part of the ENDE corpus (www.deitsch.eu). The list contains every lemma with its associated word forms documented in the corpus, comprised of 1761 lemmata and 2704 word forms. The ENDE corpus (“English-Deitsch translation corpus”) is the first POS-annotated and searchable text corpus in Pennsylvania German (= Deitsch; ISO language code: pdc), aligned to the English source texts. Despite many digital texts in Deitsch are available on the internet, there are, so far, no digital corpora for this language. This is due mainly to the lack of a generally recognized standard variety which could serve as a reference point for the linguistic analysis needed for lemmatization and annotation. Lemmatization was done with the help of different lexicographic resources (https://www.deitsch.eu/news/view/9) most of which follow other spelling conventions. A fair number of word forms, especially English loanwords of some sort, cannot be found in the dictionaries. Moreover, the variety used here is characterized by a high variability regarding not only the spelling but also other aspects of the language. Part-of-speech tags were assigned manually (see tagsets A and B below). These tagsets for part-of-speech annotation of Deitsch texts are based on the 2017 version of the STTS system created and widely used for German (https://ids-pub.bsz-bw.de/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/6063/file/Westpfahl_Schmidt_Jonietz_Borlinghaus_STTS_2_0_2017.pdf), which has been slightly modified and adapted to the corpus texts written in the Plain Deitsch variety. Tagset A gives a broader view and refers to the lemma level, tagset B is more fine-grained and suitable for  the single word forms documented in the corpus. Only those tags are listed which are actually employed for the annotation of the corpus texts. Foreign items not integrated in the Deitsch text flow (e.g. English quotations) have been omitted. For more details about the corpus and the project please refer to the above mentioned website.

Lubrang Brokpa Lexicon - basic word list

These sound files constitute the elicitation of the lexical entries of the Basic Word List in the Lubrang variety of Brokpa. Lubrang village is a recent (early 20th century) settlement of Brokpa speaker originating in Sakteng village of Bhutan. They left Bhutan due to its heavy taxation of the semi-nomadic Brokpa households and its anti-Gelukpa policies and settled in the then Tibetan-administered area on land belonging to the Khispi people of Lish village, to which they continue to pay an annual tax. Lubrang Brokpa should hence be close to Merak and Sakteng (Bhutan) Brokpa, and not so close to Nyukmadung and Senge Brokpa spoken closer by. Because of the speaker’s paternal background there may be some admixture with Dirang Tshangla.

Red Gelao (Shajing) audio word list

On July 27, 2012 in Fengyan, Shajing Township, Qianxi County, Guizhou, China, I recorded the last remaining Red Gelao speaker of Shajing Township, Li Tingju 李庭举 (age 80). She was accompanied by her middle-aged daughter, Li Zhongying 李忠英. Both were illiterate and could not even read or write their own names. Li Tingju was not easy to work with, as she declined to repeat each word three times into my microphone and only wanted to say random words that would randomly come to her memory. She was not fluent in Gelao, and only knew possibly a few dozen to a few hundred vocabulary words, as well as a few songs. Altogether, I only obtained 3 songs and less than 20-30 vocabulary words from her.

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Main and extended tables for the 207-word Swadesh list of Early Sranan and Modern Sranan with parts of speech, semantic categories, source languages and semantic and lexical changes

The dataset was made for the purposes of the author's master thesis, titled <a href="https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?id=170462&lang=slv">"Socio-Cultural Motivations for the Acquisition of Lexical Items in Sranan Tongo’s Core Vocabulary"</a>. The dataset includes two worksheets. The first is titled "Main table", and it includes all the data, where each Swadesh gloss (1 to 207) is assigned one ID (No., first column), even if there are multiple Modern Sranan (MSr) equivalents. The second worksheet, titled "Extended table", includes additional IDs (No., first column) by hyphenating, so that each MSr equivalent has its separate ID number (e. g. gloss numbered 2 has 3 MSr equivalents, so these are now numbered 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3, respectively).  This allowed the author to also make a clearer distinction according to source languages, as the MSr equivalents for the same gloss sometimes come from different source languages. More about the methodology of the tables and their importance for the research is available in the thesis, available <a href="https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?id=170462&lang=slv">at this link</a>.

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Challow 100-word Swadesh list

This repository contains a collection of high-quality (WAV) audio files corresponding to the 100-word Swadesh list in Challow, a Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken in Manipur, North-East India. This repository is part of the Supplementary Materials for the paper: Ivani, Jessica K. to appear. 2024. "Some preliminary notes on Challow, a Trans-Himalayan language from Manipur, India". Languages and Peoples of the Eastern Himalayan Region (LPEHR), Vol.22:2. The material in this file may be freely quoted, copied, or reproduced for non-commercial purposes. If used, a citation is required.

Munji audio word list

On April 29, 2013, I documented Munji of Hetaowan 核桃湾, Yongli 永利村, Donggan Township 董干镇, Malipo County, Yunnan, China. Recordings were collected from two Munji speakers, who were father and son. The father knew a few words that the son did not know. Munji is spoken by the Flowery Yi of Donggan Town, Malipo County, Yunnan. It is closely related to Mantsi of Vietnam, as the similar-sounding autonyms would imply. Munji data was collected by myself in April 2013 in Hetaowan 核桃湾, Yongli Village 永利村, Donggan Township 董干镇, Malipo County, Yunnan, while Mondzi is from YYFC (1983), as cited in the appendix of Lama (2012). Mongi data is from the appendix of Chen Kang (2010). My Munji informants in Yongli Village 永利村, Donggan Township 董干镇, Malipo County reported that their ancestors had come from the Wuhua Mountains 五华山 of Kunming.

Meang audio word list

On April 24, 2013,  I documented the Meang language of Dala 达腊, Napo County, Guangxi, China. Meang is also spoken in nearby Nianbi 念毕, which is a village part of the Dala village cluster / administrative village. My informant was Chen Mingxiu 陈明秀 (born January 12, 1958; female). She reported that the language is spoken only in Dala and Nianbi. Meang is spoken in Napo County, Guangxi, near the border with Vietnam’s Cao Bang province. The Napo County Almanac 那坡县志 reports that there are two branches of Yi in Napo County, Guangxi Province, namely the White Yi and Red Yi. The White Yi (白彝) are also locally called the White Lolo (白倮倮), High Trouser-Legged Yi (高裤脚彝), Skirt-Trouser Yi (裙裤彝), with the autonym Mángzuǒ (芒佐). The White Yi are reported to live in and around Nàlóng (那隆乡) in the villages of  Dálà (达腊), Niànbì (念毕), Zhěxiáng (者祥), Yánhuá (岩华), Pōbào (坡报), Dáwàng (达汪), and Xiàmeyào (下么要). The Red Yi (红彝) are also called the Red-Headed Yi (红头彝) or Flower-Waisted Yi (花腰彝), with autonyms Mángjí (芒集) or Miējí (乜集). According to the Napo County Almanac, they reside in and around Xiàhuá Township (下华乡) in the villages of Pōwǔ (坡五) and Pōkāngtún (坡康屯).

Maza audio word list

The Maza (ma³³zɑ⁵³) live in the single village of Mengmei 孟梅 (qha³³le⁵³), located on a rocky hilltop overlooking the administrative village center of Puyang 普阳 in Muyang Township, Funing County, Yunnan, China. Liang Min, et. al (2007:1) report that Qabiao speakers living in Dongdu Village 董渡村, Donggan Township 董干镇 further to the southwest had originally migrated in the 1600’s and 1700’s from locations called Pumei 普梅 (Qabiao name: gə³³mei³³) and Puyang 普阳 (Qabiao name: gə³³wan⁵⁵). The Red Gelao of La Pao, Hà Giang province, Vietnam refer to the Qabiao as o⁵⁵mei³³, which in Red Gelao refers to the Lolo as well (Hsiu 2014 field notes). Interestingly, the Qabiao of China are officially classified as ethnic Yi, possibly due to certain cultural similarities to Mangish (Mondzish) speakers.   Maza has a Qabiao substratum that suggests a gradual assimilation of resident Qabiao speakers by Mondzish speakers. The Maza are also locally known as the White Flowery Lolo, or "Baihua Luo" 白花倮.

Mango audio word list

On April 21, 2013, which was market day in Babao Town, I discovered the Mango language of Mumei 木美. It is also spoken in Zhelai 者赖. there are only elderly speakers in both villages. My informant was Gui Yongquan 桂永权 (born May 17, 1949; male). He did not know the Mango people's ancestral place of origin. He also reported 72 villages in Heizhiguo and Babao with the prefix Mu- 木. Mango (ma⁵⁵ŋo²¹) is a critically endangered language spoken only by the elderly in the two villages of Mumei 木美 (mei⁵⁵te³³) and Zhelai 者赖 (ɕi⁵⁵te³³) of Babao Town (ba³³wo²¹), Guangnan County, Yunnan, China. There should be no more than 50 speakers in both villages. Ziwo Lama (2012) reports another Mangish variety known as Manga (ma³³ŋa³³) is spoken in nearby Gedang village 格当村, Funing County, but whether Manga and Mango are mutually intelligible or not remains open to question. The Guangnan County Almanac (2001) also lists them as a Yi subgroup called “Guwo 估涡” in Mumei 木美. It is possible that this is an exonym given to them by other Yi groups, where the Chinese transliteration “wo 涡” would correspond to ŋo²¹ in the autonym ma⁵⁵ŋo²¹, and “gu 估” would be general prefix for ethnic Yi or Lolo. Based on their similar autonyms and neighboring locations, Mango and Manga could possibly be closely related languages, although this has yet to be confirmed with Lama’s unpublished data of Manga. Ziwo Lama had collected a word list of Manga in 2003, but none of the data has been included in Ziwo Lama (2012). Mango is the only Mangish language that has final stops. I have found two final stops /-t/ and /-k/, as in ʑat⁵³ ‘chicken’ and tjok⁵³ ‘nose’. Nong Zhuang is the only other language in contact with Mango that has final stops. Since Mango is spoken relatively close to the Zhuang-majority town center of Babao, frequent contact with Zhuang may have likely helped Mango retain (or develop) final stops.

Ukwuani audio word list

Recorded in May 2013 in Guangzhou, China. Informant, Victor Okeyia, is an Ukwuani speaker from Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria.

Mankon audio word list

Recorded in May 2013 in Guangzhou, China. Informant, Alfred Che, is a Mankon speaker from Northwest Province, Cameroon.

Muangphe audio word list (2013)

I made two trips to the Muangphe village of Xinfazhai, Heizhiguo Township, Guangnan County, Yunnan, China in August 2012 and April 2013. Both times, my informant was Luo Youwang 罗友旺, the mayor of Xinfazhai village. Muangphe has pharyngeal consonants like Northern Qiang, Atayal, and Amis. Muangphe (muaŋ⁵³, muaŋ⁵⁵phe²¹) is spoken in 5 villages of Babao and Heizhiguo townships, with ethnic Muangphe found in a total of 7 villages. They are known locally to other ethnic groups as the Lai 俫 or Lairen 俫人, which is also applied to the Austroasiatic-speaking Bolyu located further to the north in Longlin County, Guangxi. Phonologically, Muangphe is characterized by the pre-velarization of many of its initials; this does not occur in any of the other Muangphe languages. Locals of Xinfazhai 新发寨 report that Muangphe is most vigorously spoken in their village by both adults and children, while it is spoken to a lesser extent in the four villages of Jilai 吉赖, Mudilang 木底郎, Wabiao 瓦标, and Muliang 木良. Xinfazhai locals report that the language is not being transmitted to children in, and is thus likely moribund, in those four villages. Muangphe is spoken only by very few elderly individuals in Mulou 木娄and Mulong 木聋 villages, both located in Xinjie administrative village新街村. Based on these demographics, speakers of Muangphe number at least 200 but do not exceed 1,000. It is by all means an endangered language, and is moribund in most villages except for at least Xinfazhai 新发寨. Xinfazhai locals report that their ancestors had come from a location further to the east called “Jiangxi 江西”. They also claim to have bronze drums inherited from their ancestors, which are maintained and kept hidden by the village elders. An ethnic Han resident of Mulang 木浪 reports watching the local Yi performing bronze drum dances a few decades ago, but says that they are no longer performed. Traditional ethnic clothing is not worn in any of the Muangphe villages. Many village names in Heizhiguo township and Babao township contain the prefix “Mu- 木”. This likely signifies that the village used to have, or currently has, a Mangish-speaking population, since they have autonyms prefixed maŋ- ~ muŋ-. Similarly, areas that were historically Buyang have many village suffixed “-yang 央” (Li Jinfang 1999).

Muangphe audio word list (2012)

I made two trips to the Muangphe village of Xinfazhai, Heizhiguo Township, Guangnan County, Yunnan in August 2012 and April 2013. Both times, my informant was Luo Youwang 罗友旺, the mayor of Xinfazhai village. Muangphe has pharyngeal consonants like Northern Qiang, Atayal, and Amis. Muangphe (muaŋ⁵³, muaŋ⁵⁵phe²¹) is spoken in 5 villages of Babao and Heizhiguo townships, with ethnic Muangphe found in a total of 7 villages. They are known locally to other ethnic groups as the Lai 俫 or Lairen 俫人, which is also applied to the Austroasiatic-speaking Bolyu located further to the north in Longlin County, Guangxi. Phonologically, Muangphe is characterized by the pre-velarization of many of its initials; this does not occur in any of the other Muangphe languages. Locals of Xinfazhai 新发寨 report that Muangphe is most vigorously spoken in their village by both adults and children, while it is spoken to a lesser extent in the four villages of Jilai 吉赖, Mudilang 木底郎, Wabiao 瓦标, and Muliang 木良. Xinfazhai locals report that the language is not being transmitted to children in, and is thus likely moribund, in those four villages. Muangphe is spoken only by very few elderly individuals in Mulou 木娄and Mulong 木聋 villages, both located in Xinjie administrative village新街村. Based on these demographics, speakers of Muangphe number at least 200 but do not exceed 1,000. It is by all means an endangered language, and is moribund in most villages except for at least Xinfazhai 新发寨. Xinfazhai locals report that their ancestors had come from a location further to the east called “Jiangxi 江西”. They also claim to have bronze drums inherited from their ancestors, which are maintained and kept hidden by the village elders. An ethnic Han resident of Mulang 木浪 reports watching the local Yi performing bronze drum dances a few decades ago, but says that they are no longer performed. Traditional ethnic clothing is not worn in any of the Muangphe villages. Many village names in Heizhiguo township and Babao township contain the prefix “Mu- 木”. This likely signifies that the village used to have, or currently has, a Mangish-speaking population, since they have autonyms prefixed maŋ- ~ muŋ-. Similarly, areas that were historically Buyang have many village suffixed “-yang 央” (Li Jinfang 1999).

Kim Mun (Ban Khet) audio word list

On February 4, 2014, I had also collected about 25 words of Kim Mun (kim⁵⁵mun⁵³) in bản Khét, Bạch Đích commune, Yen Minh district, Ha Giang province, Vietnam.