<h3>How to cite</h3><p dir="ltr">If you use these data please cite:</p><ul><li>the original source<blockquote><p dir="ltr">Oudemans, Jean Abraham Chrétien. 1879. Woordenlijst van de Talen van Enggano, Mentawei en Nias. Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde XXV(5–6). 484–488.</p></blockquote></li><li>the derived dataset using the DOI of the <a href="https://github.com/engganolang/oudemans-1879/releases" target="_blank">particular released version</a> you were using</li></ul><blockquote><p dir="ltr">Rajeg, Gede Primahadi Wijaya (2025). CLDF dataset derived from Oudemans' "Woordenlijst van de Talen van Enggano, Mentawei en Nias" from 1879. University of Oxford. Dataset. <a href="https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.28436033" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.28436033</a></p></blockquote><h3>Description</h3><p dir="ltr">This is an old comparative word list from the second half of the 19th century (Oudemans <a href="https://glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/44660" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1879</a>) for Enggano, Mentawai, and Nias, the three Barrier Islands languages of Sumatra, Indonesia. The Enggano list is integrated into <a href="https://enggano.shinyapps.io/enolex/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EnoLEX</a> (Krauße et al. <a href="https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.28282169" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2024a</a>; Rajeg et al. <a href="https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.27013864.v1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2024</a>; also Krauße et al. <a href="https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.28295648.v1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2024b</a>; Rajeg et al. <a href="https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.28282946.v1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2025</a>). EnoLEX is a diachronic lexical database for the Enggano language.</p><p dir="ltr">Before the CLDF conversion with <a href="https://github.com/cldf/cldfbench" target="_blank">cldfbench</a>, the original <a href="https://github.com/engganolang/oudemans-1879/tree/main/data-source" target="_blank">source data set</a> was <a href="https://github.com/engganolang/oudemans-1879/blob/main/etc/oudemans1879.R" target="_blank">processed with R</a>, including the <a href="https://github.com/engganolang/oudemans-1879/tree/main/ortho" target="_blank">initial orthography</a> profiling. This <a href="https://github.com/engganolang/oudemans-1879/blob/main/cldf/forms.csv" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">CLDF data set</a> has been accepted in the <a href="https://lexibank.clld.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><i>Lexibank</i></a> registry on <a href="https://zenodo.org/communities/lexibank/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Zenodo</a>.</p><hr><p dir="ltr"><i>This work is part of the</i><i> </i><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH/W007290/1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>AHRC-funded research</i></a><i> </i><i>to build</i><i> </i><a href="https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/Lexical_resources_for_Enggano" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>lexical resources for Enggano</i></a><i>, led by the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford, UK. Visit the</i><i> </i><a href="https://enggano.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>central webpage of the Enggano research</i></a><i> </i><i>and the</i><i> </i><a href="https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/Enggano" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>main research repository for Enggano</i></a><i> </i><i>at the University of Oxford's</i><i> </i><a href="https://www.sds.ox.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Sustainable Digital Scholarship</i></a><i> </i><i>(SDS) platform</i>.</p>
Funding
Lexical resources for Enggano, a threatened language of Indonesia