This folder contains all the original data that form the basis of descriptive, analytical and theoretical exploration in this work. All the sound files contain the recordings of the voice of the second author, who is a native speaker of Tal. In total, there are four main folders uploaded here. 1. The folder **Audio_of_Examples** contains the audio files and ELAN textgrids of all the examples cited in this work. The folder also contains tokenized form of each example. The tokenized form are arranged by sections. 2. The folder **Audio_Acoustic_Analysis** contains the audio files, praat textgrids and praat script of the acoustic analysis presented in this work. 3. The folder **Map_Source_in_QGIS** contains the source file and instructions for the map used in this work. The map were created by the authors using coordinates that we collected from the language community. 4. The folder **R_script_Dataframe** contains the R code and data frames that form the basis of the statistical model and graphs in this work. The dataframe were generated from the annotation in "Audio_of_Examples". **Citation** Akinbo, S. K. & Bulkaam, M., (2024) “Iconicity as the motivation for the signification and locality of deictic grammatical tones in Tal”, Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 9(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.10666