The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database or ABVD is a large database of basic vocabulary lists that mainly covers the Austronesian languages.
The database was created by Simon J. Greenhill as part of a graduate research project that he was working on with Russell Gray.
The list was originally from a set of printed 200-item word lists developed by Robert Blust as a lexicostatistical aid for classifying the Austronesian languages.
10 more numerals were added after the original 200th item, 'four', giving the word list its present 210-item inventory.
In 2008, a computational analysis of the lexical database showed that the Austronesian languages had originated from Taiwan, rather than from Indonesia or other regions of Oceania.