This project is a collaborative effort between researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, researchers at Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya, and members of the Nasal community. The primary goal of the project is to produce extensive, long-lasting documentation output alongside Nasal-language materials to be used for local language maintenance efforts. My work on this project focuses on the documentation of the Nasal lexicon, development and maintenance of a lexical database, and production of associated dictionary outputs. Other ongoing tasks aim at producing children's books, compiling a reference grammar, and assessing the vitality of Nasal. This project is funded as a part of NSF Award #1911641.

The Sumatran Comparative Lexical Database project is still in its infancy. A first step in a larger linguistic compilation of all things Sumatran, this project aims to be a thorough collection and analysis of cognate sets among all languages of the Sumatran subgroup of Austronesian drawn from all extant lexical sources. The database is heavily annotated and adheres to three principles: maximal refutability, maximal reusability, and minimal redundancy. As of the current state of the project, data from all 18 Sumatran languages is included, although thorough analysis has so far only been carried out for the Northern Batak languages. Currently, more than 90,000 entries drawn from data sources form the foundation for the more than 3,500 cognate sets assigned to either inherited or loan vocabulary.