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More commonly linguists talk about Swadesh lists. For the most complete modern collection of Swadesh-like lists and a program/algorithm for automatically gener
by phuff 12y ago
More commonly linguists talk about Swadesh lists. For the most complete modern collection of Swadesh-like lists and a program/algorithm for automatically generating a language family tree from them see: http://asjp.clld.org http://asjp.clld.org
- ar-jan 12y agoWhile ASJP is used to explore potential relationships, it should be noted that it cannot reliably determine language relatedness by itself. The gold standard for that is still the comparative method. [1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_method_%28linguistics%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_method_%28linguist...