Abstract:This article presents the background to, and a description of, a newly developed online database of historical and contemporary lexical data for languages of the region on and around the Bird's Head of New Guinea. In the first public release described here, the OUTOFPAPUA database collects more than 200,000 lexemes for more than 400 languages/dialects; coverage will be expanded in subsequent releases. The database aims to include sources of all sizes, from short wordlists collected in survey visits to dictionaries of several thousand entries based on multiple years of linguistic work. The database is primarily designed for use in qualitative historical linguistic research, facilitating detection and tracking of cognates and loanwords across the region, but is envisaged to serve a diverse audience by providing online access to many hard-to-access sources from archives and libraries.
Lexical borrowings are words from one language that are introduced into another language. Identifying lexical borrowings in text is a relevant task for data-centric fields in Linguistics such as lexicography or corpus linguistics, but none of the standard libraries for text processing offers such a functionality. In th...
The article examines the names for the wagon in two adjacent multiethnic regions — Odesa and Mykolaiv — based on regional dialect dictionaries. Despite rather extensive areal research of traditional transportation terminology, the southern region of Ukraine has so far remained largely overlooked by scholars, and the ai...
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Official month names in Estonian and other Finnic languages (except for Finnish), as well as in many other languages, originate from Latin. In addition to these, folk names are also used; these date back to long before the emergence of the Christian calendar and currently appear as parallel variants in calendars, ficti...
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Introduction. The relevance of studying Karelian written monuments dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries within Finnic studies lies in the fact that they remain insufficiently investigated, although it is precisely during this period that transitional linguistic features are attested, providing important e...
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This study explores Arabic-origin loanwords in Northern Talyshi, addressing a significant gap in existing scholarship. Although the Talyshi language has been the subject of linguistic research for nearly two centuries, its lexicon – particularly borrowed vocabulary – remains largely understudied. Prior work has foc...
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