Dataset from Zenodo · Sebestyen Hompot
Database of Hokkien Dictionaries and Textbooks
- License
- CC BY 4.0commercial use allowedLicense text
- This license allows commercial use. Usually you must credit the author; read the license for the exact terms.
- Formats
- SQL, ZIP
- Size
- 159 kB
- Updated
- Jan 24, 2020
Description
Hokkien (a.k.a. Minnan 閩南話, Southern Min, Taiwanese) is a variety of Chinese spoken in the southern part of Fujian province (China), Taiwan and by a large number of overseas Chinese all over Southeast Asia. Hokkien dictionaries and textbooks have been published since the 16th century in a number of locations and in a variety of languages (Classical Chinese, Dutch, English, Hokkien, Japanese, Latin, Mandarin, Spanish) for purposes such as education for locals, Christian missionary work and colonial administration. In this post I would like to share a database project I created for the "Working with Digital Data for Historians" class taught by Prof. Tara Andrews at Uni Vienna in the autumn semester of 2018/19. The project work is based on my 3-years MA studies at Xiamen University (Fujian prov., China) and is connected to an article of mine ( Xiamen at the Crossroads of Sino-Foreign Interaction During the Late Qing and Republican Periods: The Issue of Hokkien Phoneticization) already peer-reviewed and accepted for publication in the journal Crossroads - Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World . The database is an Excel spreadsheet-based SQL database…
Description from Zenodo, shortened.
Files (2)
- SQLHokkien_project_sql_dump_by_Sebestyen_Hompot.sql48 kB
- ZIPHokkien_project_by_Sebestyen_Hompot.zip111 kB
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