lexibank / powerma

CLDF dataset accompanying Power et al.'s "Evolutionary Dynamics in the Dispersal of Sign Languages" from 2020

CLDF dataset accompanying Power et al.'s "Evolutionary Dynamics in the Dispersal of Sign Languages" from 2020

Cite the source dataset as

Power, Justin M.; Grimm, Guido; and List, Johann-Mattis (2020): Evolutionary dynamics in the dispersal of sign languages. Royal Society Open Science. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.191100

This dataset is licensed under a GPL-3.0 license

Available online at https://github.com/lexibank/powerma/

Statistics

• Varieties: 76
• Concepts: 107
• Lexemes: 2,124
• Sources: 64
• Synonymy: 1.02
• Cognacy: 2,124 cognates in 394 cognate sets (185 singletons)
• Cognate Diversity: 0.14

powerma's Issues

Document the hand shape font

The files signalphabets.tsv and forms.csv contain Private Use Area characters like . Such characters make no sense unless a specific font is used. Judging from the screenshots in the paper, they are supposed to represent hand shapes. Would you mind documenting what font is used, and from where it is available?

PS: Unicode actually does have an area for sign language hand shapes, in the form of a SignWriting block (code chart). It may be better for interoperability if the database is converted sometime, but I do understand that it takes work to adapt between Hamnosys and SW models.