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
- Varieties: 173
- Concepts: 191
- Lexemes: 30,188
- Sources: 1
- Synonymy: 1.02
- Invalid lexemes: 0
- Tokens: 165,504
- Segments: 420 (160 BIPA errors, 160 CTLS sound class errors, 260 CLTS modified)
- Inventory size (avg): 53.36
| Name | GitHub user | Description | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aviva Shimelman | Recorded and phonetically transcribed all of the Malekula languages from 2015 to 2017 | Author | |
| Mary Walworth | Coordinator (since 2017) of the Vanuatu study and its expansion from Malekula island to other islands of Vanuatu. Directed fieldworkers to Maewo, Ambae, and Pentecost and obtained legacy recordings for Pentecost Island. | Author | |
| Lana Takau | Translated the Vanuatu study into Bislama, edited and transcribed all languages of Pentecost Island | Author | |
| Tom Ennever | Together with Iveth Rodriguez, recorded and transcribed phonetically 28 languages from Ambae and Maewo Islands | Author | |
| Iveth Rodriguez | Together with Tom Ennever, recorded and transcribed phonetically 28 languages from Ambae and Maewo Islands | Author | |
| Tom Fitzpatrick | 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 | |
| Daria Dërmaku | Provided audio post-processing and mark-up from 2016-2020 | Author | |
| Laura Wägerle | Provided audio post-processing and mark-up 2016-2018 | Author | |
| Heidi Colleran | Co-directed the Vanuatu Languages and Lifeways project from 2016-2018 | Author | |
| Paul Heggarty | Founded and manages https://soundcomparisons.com where this data was initially published. Managed and co-ordinated the data processing work to create the Vanuatu database. | Author | |
| Kaitip W. Kami | Coordinated and assisted with recordings of many Malekula languages | Author | |
| Hans-Jörg Bibiko | @Bibiko | Programmer and maintainer of the data repository, assisted with data curation and data converting | 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 |