Table 4 The variables and their definitions in the Cultures data.

From: The Austronesian Game Taxonomy: A cross-cultural dataset of historical games

Variable

Definition

ABVD_code

Linguistic identifier from the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database (ABVD)

ABVD_language

Language corresponding to the ABVD_code in Games.csv

Glottolog_code

Linguistic identifier from the glottolog database

ISO6393_code

Linguistic identifier from the ISO-639-3 database

ABVD_longitude

Longitude according to ABVD

ABVD_latitude

Latitude according to ABVD

Pulotu_culture

Name of the culture as indicated by Pulotu

Phylo_TreeTaxaName

The name of the language on the Austronesian language phylogeny from Gray et al. (2009)

Dplace_HRAF_name_ID

Name of the culture as indicated by D-Place

Game_ID

Corresponds to the Game_ID in Games.csv

  1. Each row in the Cultures table refers to a unique ABVD (Greenhill et al., 2008) code.