> > I've found this:
> >
http://www.ntu.edu.au/education/langs/ielex/HEADPAGE.html
> > which may or may not be news and/or of interest to some or less of the
> > listmembers.
>
> Does anyone have this list in real ASCII? It says it's in ascii, but it's
> ^M's only, and so has no line feeds in unix.
: For each meaning in the list of 200 basic meanings
: (chosen by Morris Swadesh in 1952),
: this file contains the forms used in the 95 speech varieties
: collected by Isidore Dyen and the cognation decisions
: among these forms made by Isidore Dyen in the 1960s.