Swadesh List(en.wikipedia.org)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadesh_list

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glup7 anni fa

A nice generalization and extension, which is super useful for modern linguistics and cognitive science, is the Intercontinental Dictionary Series (https://ids.clld.org)

toufka7 anni fa

Many Swadesh lists are micro-etched on the Rosetta Disk made by the Long Now's "Rosetta Project" - an effort to preserve and document as many languages as possible.

https://blog.longnow.org/02010/09/24/swadesh-list-data-now-r...

binrec7 anni fa

A few weeks ago I got curious about the phonological development of Rotokas and figured I'd see if any reconstruction could be done on the North Bougainville languages. The only documentation I could find for Ramopa and Askopan at all were Rosetta Project Swadesh lists on archive.org - talk about coverage!

haxterstockman7 anni fa

Glad to see this on HN. My now 85 year old linguistics professor once actually used this to document a language in India. Bone char was always a crazy one!