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Record W4407177891 · doi:10.11647/obp.0409.01

A Typology of Fish Names in Kumzari

2025· book-chapter· en· W4407177891 on OpenAlex
Erik Anonby, AbdulQader Qasim Ali Al Kamzari

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Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge semitic languages and cultures · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLinguistics and Cultural Studies
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTypologyFish <Actinopterygii>FisheryGeographyBiologyArchaeology

Abstract

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In contrast to the desolate environments that characterize much of the Arabia’s surface, the surrounding waters are home to a high level of biological diversity, including hundreds of species of fish. This is particularly true of the seas around the Musandam Peninsula of far north-eastern Arabia, where shallow gulf waters give way to open ocean. This chapter provides an inventory, description and analysis of fish names in Kumzari, an endangered language spoken in a handful of towns and city neighbourhoods in the wider region. The scope of fish as a semantic category is first delimited, followed by comments on the defining and labelling of fish species. The central section of the article proposes a typology of Kumzari fish names based on factors including association with other species, descriptions of their physical appearance and other, more complex kinds of descriptive labels. The article closes with reflection on fish names in their wider linguistic context: structural characteristics, use of fish names elsewhere in the lexicon, and the relevance of fish names for understanding the history of the Kumzari language. An explanatory lexicon of the 198 fish names in the data is provided as an appendix.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.873
Threshold uncertainty score0.710

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.251
Teacher spread0.239 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it