Data and code accompanying the paper "Bangime: Secret language, language isolate, or language island?

If you use the code and data provided in this package, please quote the paper:

Hantgan, Abbie and List, Johann-Mattis (forthcoming): Bangime. Secret language, language isolate, or language island? Journal of Language Contact.

Or use the BibTex for convenience:

@Article{Hantgan2018,
  author    = {Hantgan, Abbie and List, Johann-Mattis},
  title     = {Bangime: Secret language, language isolate, or language island?},
  journal   = {Journal of Language Contact},
  year      = {forthcoming}
}

Installation of the main code to run the analyses reported in the paper

To run the code, you need to have a fresh installation of python3 (python-3.4 or higher).

To install the necessary libraries, you can use PIP:

$ pip install -r pip-requirements

In order to install basemap, you have to follow the online instructions at https://matplotlib.org/basemap/users/installing.html.

To run the scripts, open a terminal in the folder code, and follow the instructions in the file code/README.md.

Converting the dataset into a lexibank-cldf package

In order to convert the largest of the dataset that we created into a valid lexibank package in CLDF format, you have to install the package first by typing:

$ python setup.py develop

After this, you should install the pylexibank package (version >= 0.9.0) at https://github.com/lexibank/pylexibank with all its requirements (follow the instructions at the repository website).

You can then curate the dataset (and turning it into CLDF format), by typing:

$ lexibank makecldf hantganbangime

The resulting CLDF package can be found in the folder src/lexibank_hantganbangime/cldf/.