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)---
<begin quote>
>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>