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70% (26/37) of those are Indo-European (I think). No Amerindian, Polynesian, or Austronesian languages represented.
by tlb 11y ago
70% (26/37) of those are Indo-European (I think). No Amerindian, Polynesian, or Austronesian languages represented.
- jcranmer 11y agoIndonesian is an Austronesian language. Actually, more important is the lack of Niger-Congo languages--these are the most numerous by number.
- BossHogg 11y agoNor a single indigenous African language which I find particularly strange given Africa's somewhat central (/s) role in human developmental history.
- Tuna-Fish 11y agoI count 24 indo-european languages. Not indo-european: Arabic, Basque, Chinese, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Hebrew Your point still stands.
- canjobear 11y agoI'd love to have more interesting languages in the sample. If you speak such a language, and you are willing to parse ~2000 sentences for me, get in touch :)
- protomyth 11y agoDid you approach any of the Native Americans tribes? The Navajo in particular are very up on promoting their language (they even translated Star Wars).