Using cross-linguistic data formats (CLDF) databases for historical linguistics and comparative anthropological research
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Using cross-linguistic data formats (CLDF) databases for historical linguistics and comparative anthropological research: the example of CINWA, a database of names of cultivated plants in South American Indigenous communities
In this presentation, I will illustrate how cross-linguistic data formats (CLDF, Forkel et al. 2018) can be used to construct intuitively accessible online databases of different types of cross-linguistic data, and store them according to FAIR principles. After briefly introducing some of CLDF's design principles, I will focus on presenting the CINWA database for names of cultivated plants in South American Indigenous communities (Aguilar Panchi et al. 2023, Urban et al. 2023) as an example of a CLDF database. CINWA contains names for cultivated plants in Indigenous languages of South America, which we use in ongoing work on linguistic aspects of the transition from hunting and gathering to sophisticated forms of agriculture that occurred at different times in different parts of pre-Columbian South America. I will discuss some of the decisions we made in designing the database and extracting data, highlighting in particular the value of (i) consistency in the generation of characters with diacritics in the orthographies of Indigenous languages and (ii) full documentation of the original glosses in the lexicographic sources that we consulted, and then demonstrate the functionalities of CINWA available to users through the online interface available at http://www.cinwa.org/ Panchi, A., Michelle, E., Lee, S. & Brodetsky, E. (2022). CINWA -Database of Cultivated plants and their names in the indigenous languages of South America. www.cinwa.org
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