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IE Swadesh lists

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Friday, June 14, 2002, 3:34
On another list, a man named Doug Cooper posted the following, which may be
of interest (if only as a source of some neat words from obscure
languages)---

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>As I recall, figures for most of the Indo-European families are given in a >book on the lexicostatistics of IE languages by Isidore Dyen and Paul
Black. Their raw data, plus some discussion, can be found at: http://www.ntu.edu.au/education/langs/ielex/HEADPAGE.html I just built a tool, Cog-o-Matic, that grinds their numbers into readable form (ordered by language or cognate percentages). It's at: http://crcl.th.net/cogmatic <end quote>