Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Sci Data. 2024 Jan 18;11(1):92. doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-02928-7.
The history of the language families in Lowland South America remains an understudied area of historical linguistics. Panoan and Tacanan, two language families from this area, have frequently been proposed to descend from the same ancestor. Despite ample evidence in favor of this hypothesis, not all scholars accept it as proven beyond doubt. We compiled a new lexical questionnaire with 501 basic concepts to investigate the genetic relation between Panoan and Tacanan languages. The dataset includes data from twelve Panoan, five Tacanan, and four other languages which have previously been suggested to be related to Pano-Tacanan. Through the transparent annotation of grammatical morphemes and partial cognates, our dataset provides the basis for testing language relationships both qualitatively and quantitatively. The data is not only relevant for the investigation of the ancestry of Panoan and Tacanan languages. Reflecting the state of the art in computer-assisted approaches for historical language comparison, it can serve as a role model for linguistic studies in other areas of the world.
南美洲低地的语言家族史在历史语言学中仍是一个研究不足的领域。该地区的两个语言家族——帕诺安语族和塔卡纳语族，经常被认为源自同一个祖先。尽管有充分的证据支持这一假说，但并非所有学者都接受这一假说已被证明无疑。我们编制了一个新的词汇问卷，其中包含 501 个基本概念，以调查帕诺安语族和塔卡纳语族之间的遗传关系。该数据集包括来自 12 种帕诺安语、5 种塔卡纳语和 4 种其他语言的数据，这些语言之前被认为与帕诺-塔卡纳语有关。通过对语法形态的透明标注和部分同源词的标注，我们的数据集为定性和定量检验语言关系提供了基础。这些数据不仅与帕诺安语族和塔卡纳语族的起源研究有关，还反映了计算机辅助历史语言比较方法的最新进展，可为世界其他地区的语言学研究提供范例。
