CLDF dataset derived from Beijing University's "Chinese Dialect Vocabularies" from 1964

How to cite

If you use these data please cite

• the original source

  Běijīng Dàxué 北京大学 (1964): Hànyǔ fāngyán cíhuì 汉语方言词汇 [Chinese dialect vocabularies]. Beijing: Wenzi Gaige.

• the derived dataset using the DOI of the particular released version you were using

Description

This dataset is licensed under a CC-BY-4.0 license

Available online at https://github.com/digling/cddb/

Conceptlists in Concepticon:

• BeijingDaxue-1964-905

Notes

This dataset, which is well-known among Sinologists, comprises 18 dialect varieties, collected during the 1950s and was digitized during 2012 and 2016. We offer the data in morpheme-segmented form, with a slightly adjusted IPA transcription.

Statistics

• Varieties: 18 (linked to 18 different Glottocodes)
• Concepts: 905 (linked to 738 different Concepticon concept sets)
• Lexemes: 18,059
• Sources: 1
• Synonymy: 1.11
• Invalid lexemes: 0
• Tokens: 120,791
• Segments: 279 (0 BIPA errors, 0 CLTS sound class errors, 279 CLTS modified)
• Inventory size (avg): 62.78

Contributors

Name	GitHub user	Description	Role
Beijing University		data collection	Author
Johann-Mattis List	@LinguList	maintainer	Editor

CLDF Datasets

The following CLDF datasets are available in cldf:

• CLDF Wordlist at cldf/cldf-metadata.json
• CLDF StructureDataset at cldf/StructureDataset-metadata.json