DOI: 10.7488/65809bf0-96ff-47a2-aa8b-548e3dca1118
title: Biga (ISO 639-3: bhc, Glottocode: biga1238) Collection

description: The following datasets are part of the Collection:
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BIG002 - Biga - Basic vocabulary (Speaker: Melianuis Samigita), 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7642.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BIG007 - Biga - Basic vocabulary (Speaker: Etresia Malbanat), 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7647.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BIG010 - Biga - Possessive and verbal subject-marking paradigms, 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7650.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BIG004 - Biga - Three church songs, 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7644.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BIG009 - Biga - Basic vocabulary (Speaker: Dorlince Drimlol), 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7649.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BIG011 - Biga - Conversational questionnaires (Dialogues A 'We're going fishing', D 'A family album', and E 'A boy falls'), 2020 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7651.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BIG005 - Biga - Possessive and verbal subject-marking paradigms, 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7645.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BIG001 - Biga - A history of Biga speakers, 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7641.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BIG003 - Biga - Basic vocabulary (Speaker: Argenus Malbanat), 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7643.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BIG006 - Biga - Basic vocabulary (Speaker: Semuel Mandurun), 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7646.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BIG012 - Biga - Flute and drum procession, 2020 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7652.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BIG008 - Biga - Basic vocabulary (Speaker: Penina Logof), 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7648.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BIG013 - Biga - Conversational questionnaire (Dialogue F, 'Lifting stones'); morphosyntactic data; pronominal and verbal/adjectival subject-marking paradigms, 2020 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7653.
description: This collection forms part of a community of linguistic datasets https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8573

Biga [ISO 639-3: bhc, Glottocode: biga1238] is spoken by around 300 people in a single village in the southeast of Misool island. According to oral histories, the Biga are relatively recent incomers to Misool, having left their homeland on Waigeo island around 300 years ago. The Biga are important sago producers in the area—this socioeconomic role is reflected in the name Biga (bi 'sago' + ga 'place'). Biga is relatively vital for the local context, in that children acquire and spontaneously use the language with elders. However, there are early signs that this situation may soon change: for example, children tend to speak only Papuan Malay with their peers.

This collection largely comprises elicited lexical and morphosyntactic data. There is a list of basic words (around 150, recorded in isolation, utterance-final, and utterance-medial contexts), as well as data on the verbal subject agreement and possessive-marking paradigms. The collection includes material from both male and female speakers, all of whom are in their 40s and older. Typically, each item contains an audio recording (.wav), the accompanying field notes (.pdf), a metadata file (.txt), and a record of speaker consent (.pdf); many items also include a Praat TextGrid. As well as the raw recordings of the individual sessions, the segmented audio files of some sessions are provided as a separate item, to facilitate searches on a particular word or construction.
description: Arnold, Laura M. (2023). Biga (ISO 639-3: bhc, Glottocode: biga1238) (2023). University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language. https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8686