DOI: 10.7488/1128ae48-0cd3-4f3a-be17-e54ed10beee7
title: Batta (Glottocode: bata1295) Collection

description: The following datasets are part of the Collection:
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT001 - Batta - A history of Batta speakers, 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7584.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT024 - Batta - Verbal subject-marking paradigms; conversational questionnaires ('Eating banana hearts', 'Using a canoe', 'Chewing betel nut'), 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7607.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT016 - Batta - Conversational questionnaire (Dialogue F, 'Lifting stones') and morphosyntactic data, 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7599.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT010 - Batta - Basic vocabulary (Speaker: Ema Sawoy), 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7593.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT004 - Batta - Basic vocabulary (Speaker: Magdalena Sauyai), 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7587.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT017 - Batta - Morphosyntactic data, 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7600.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT022 - Batta - Batta song, 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7605.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT021 - Batta - Morphosyntactic data, 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7604.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT025 - Batta - Morphosyntactic data, 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7608.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT019 - Batta - The North Wind and the Sun, 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7602.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT007 - Batta - Narrative: The time I met a mermaid, 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7590.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT005 - Batta - Basic vocabulary (Speaker: Martina Kapisa), 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7588.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT002 - Batta - Basic words (Speaker: Hans Ferson Sawoy), 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7585.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT018 - Batta - Narrative: Children's story ('The mudskipper and the pufferfish'), 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7601.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT003 - Batta - Conversational questionnaire (Dialogue A, 'We're going fishing'), 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7586.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT011 - Batta - Conversational questionnaire (Dialogue D, 'A family photo album'), 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7594.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT014 - Batta - Minimal pairs, 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7597.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT026 - Batta - Checking sketch, 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7609.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT009 - Batta - Flute and drum procession, Wayman, 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7592.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT006 - Batta - Basic vocabulary (Speaker: Septinus Mde), 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7589.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT008 - Batta - Basic words (Speaker: Yafed Kapisa), 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7591.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT023 - Batta - Basic words, verbal/adjectival subject-marking paradigms, 2023 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7606.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT015 - Batta - Written pronominal 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/7598.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT012 - Batta - Conversation questionnaire (Dialogue E, 'A boy falls'), 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7595.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT013 - Batta - 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/7596.
*Arnold, Laura. (2023). BAT020 - Batta - Minimal pairs, 2019 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences. Department of Linguistics & English Language. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7603.
description: This collection forms part of a community of linguistic datasets https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8573

Batta [Glottocode: bata1295] is spoken by around 150 people in three villages on the south coast of Batanta island. Batta is either a divergent dialect or a closely-related sister of Salawati [xmx, made1253], spoken just across the Sagewin Straits on Salawati island. Speakers of Batta have a long and intricate history with speakers of Biak [bhw, biak1248], who have migrated to Batanta in several waves over the last few hundred years; today, Biak is the dominant language of the island, and younger generations are monolingual in Papuan Malay. Batta is seriously endangered, in that only people in their 40s and older use the language on a daily basis.

This collection largely comprises elicited lexical and morphosyntactic data. 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; data elicited using the Conversational Questionnaire method; and a couple of narratives. 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, and some items also include a video recording (.mp4) and/or an Elan file (.eaf). 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). Batta (Glottocode: bata1295) (2023). University of Edinburgh. School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Linguistics and English Language. https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/8614