DOI: 10.7488/1d248b25-ef88-4125-a152-e1c31351463a
title: Maˈya (Wauyai dialect: ISO 369-3: lcc, Glottocode: lege1241) Collection

description: The following datasets are part of the Collection:
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU010 - Wauyai Maˈya - Conversational questionnaires (Dialogues B 'Preparing for the new year', D 'A family album', F 'Lifting stones'), 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7572.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU015 - Wauyai Maˈya - Demonstratives and other markers of spatial orientation, 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7577.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU014 - Wauyai Maˈya - Morphosyntactic data, 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7576.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU013 - Wauyai Maˈya - Morphosyntactic data, 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7575.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU012 - Wauyai Maˈya - Morphosyntactic data, 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7574.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU004 - Wauyai Maˈya - Basic words (numbers, qualities, verbs), 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7566.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU016 - Wauyai Maˈya - Morphosyntactic data, 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7578.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU002 - Wauyai Maˈya - Basic words (animals), 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7564.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU008 - Wauyai Maˈya - Conversational Questionnaires (Dialogue C, 'Seeing the suester'), 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7570.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU017 - Wauyai Maˈya - Miscellaneous elicited data (minimal pairs, morphosyntactic data), 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Languagee. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7579.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU019 - Wauyai Maˈya - Checking Wauyai Maˈya sketch grammar, 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7581.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU007 - Wauyai Maˈya - Conversational Questionnaires, Dialogues E ('A boy falls') and A ('We're going fishing'), 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7569.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU001 - Wauyai Maˈya - Basic words (landscape, plants), 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7563.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU020 - Wauyai Maˈya - Miscellaneous basic vocabulary, 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7582.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU009 - Wauyai Maˈya - Possessive paradigms (body parts, kin terms), 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7571.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU003 - Wauyai Maˈya, 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7565.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU011 - Wauyai Maˈya - Possessive paradigms, verbal subject-marking paradigms, pronominal paradigms, 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7573.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU018 - Wauyai Maˈya - Morphosyntactic data, 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7580.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU005 - Wauyai Maˈya - Basic words (verbs), 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7567.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). WAU006 - Wauyai Maˈya - Basic words (body parts), 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7568.
description: This collection forms part of a community of linguistic datasets https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8573.

Wauyai [ISO 369-3: lcc, Glottocode: lege1241] is a dialect of Maˈya spoken in one village on the the coast of Kabui Bay in the southwest of Waigeo island. The language is seriously endangered: the youngest active users are in their 40s. Speakers of Biak [bhw, biak1248] have been migrating to this region over the last few hundred years, and there has been much intermarriage between these groups. Today, the dominant language the village is the Beser dialect of Biak; younger generations are monolingual in Papuan Malay. There are perhaps only 30-40 people who use Wauyai on a daily basis.

This collection comprises elicited lexical and morphosyntactic data, recorded from two speakers (Pilipus Gimla, born 1955; Daniel Gaman, born 1960). There is a list of basic words (around 350, recorded in isolation, utterance-final, and utterance-medial contexts); data on the verbal subject agreement and possessive-marking paradigms; other morphosyntactic material; and data elicited using the Conversational Questionnaire method. Each item contains an audio recording (.wav), the accompanying field notes (.pdf), a metadata file (.rtf), and a record of speaker consent (.pdf). As well as the raw recordings of the individual sessions, the segmented audio files of some recordings are provided as a separate item, to facilitate searches on a particular word or construction.
description: Arnold, Laura M. (2023). Maˈya (Wauyai dialect: ISO 369-3: lcc, Glottocode: lege1241) (2023). University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language. https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8592