huber: Comparative vocabulary for indigenous languages of Colombia (Huber & Reed 1992)

Description

Data from Huber & Reed (1992), containing a comparative vocabulary (a `wordlist') for 69 indigenous languages from Colombia.

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source

Huber, Randall Q. & Robert B. Reed. 1992. Vocabulario Comparativo: Palabras Selectas de Lenguas Indigenas de Colombia. Bogota: Instituto Linguistico de Verano. available online at http://www.sil.org/americas/COLOMBIA/show_work.asp?id=928474518886. Copyright 2014 SIL International.

Details

The editors have attempted to use a harmonized orthography throughout all languages, approximately based on IPA, though there are still many language-specific idiosyncracies included. However, the translations into English and Spanish are written in their regular orthography, and not in the IPA-dialect as used for the other languages. In general, the `translations' into English and Spanish are simply lowercase versions of the concept-names, included here to more flexibly identify the meaning of words in the Colombian languages. In many cases these translations are somewhat clunky (e.g. `spring of water'), and are missing the proper orthography details (e.g. `Adams apple').

The book was digitized in the http://www.quanthistling.info{QuantHistLing project} and provided here as an example of dealing efficiently with reasonably large data. Care has been taken to faithfully represent the original transcription from the printed version.

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