Brief History of our Linguistic Questionnaire for Asia and Africa
The Linguistic Questionnaire for Asia and Africa
was made to meet linguistic requirements in investigating target languages, unfamiliar to us, spoken in Asia and Africa.
The plan and project to make the Linguistic Questionnaire for Asia and Africa were first proposed and taken up in the Steering Committee of
ILCAA
which was held on the 28th January, 1965.
As the first outcome of the project, the Linguistic Questionnaire for Asia and Africa 1,
the original Japanese title of which is 『アジア・アフリカ言語調査票 上』 ,
was published by ILCAA in 1966. It was of handy size and contained 1,000 entries to which Japanese, English, and French equivalents were given.
The following year the enlarged edition, the Linguistic Questionnaire for Asia and Africa 2,
the original Japanese title of which was 『アジア・アフリカ言語調査票 下』 ,
was published. It was reprinted in 1980.
The two editions of the Linguistic Questionnaire for Asia and Africa are different from one another in some respects.
| Linguistic Questionnaire for Asia and Africa 2 『アジア・アフリカ言語調査票 下』(1967 edition) |
Linguistic Questionnaire for Asia and Africa 1 『アジア・アフリカ言語調査票 上』(1966 edition) |
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| entries | 2,000 | 1,000 |
| given equivalent languages | 12 languages (Japanese, English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Germany, Hindi, Indonesian (Malay), Persian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili) | 3 languages (Japanese, English, French) |
| pages | xii, 287 | 447 |
| size (mm) | 181 × 261 | 104 × 173 |
| useful for | contrastive studies | collecting and describing new words in the field-work |
Digitized Linguistic Questionnaire for Asia and Africa
After the long years the printed matters of Linguistic Questionnaire for Asia and Africa have been out of stock, IRC have, as one of main activities, made decision to produce digital series of Linguistic Questionnaire for Asia and Africa in 2010. Some outcomes are here for academic use.
| # | format | contents | notes |
| 1 | Linguistic Questionnaire for Asia and Africa 2 | so-called digital reprint of the Linguistic Questionnaire for Asia and Africa 2 reprinted in 1979 | |
| 2 | XLS | Linguistic Questionnaire for Asia and Africa 2 | based on the product originally digitized by GICAS |
| 3 | HTML |
Tamil: 2000 words LIST A arranged in the original order. LIST B arranged in the order of Linguistic Questionnaire for Asia and Africa 2. |
The resources are based on the
investigation
by Dr. N. Uchida who has collected and described basic Tamil words and their sounds according to the framework of Linguistic Questionnaire for Asia and Africa 2. The digital data for this presentation were prepared by Prof. K. Machida and Prof. J. Takashima with the help of IRC and LingDy funds. Tamil sounds read by Ms. Minakshi. |