Today, I want to present a spreadsheet of Swadesh words I generated. It contains 207 words of the Swadesh list and some more. The table is pretty large but not complete. For ancient languages I had a hard time finding any words at all.
I collected words from these languages (ancient languages in red):
Hittite Luwian Lycian Palaic Phyrgian Tocharian A Tocharian B Thracian Albanian Ancient Greek Ancient Greek (Herodotus) Greek Classical Armenian Armenian Mod Eastern Armenian Mitanni Saka (Khotanese) Saka (Tumshuqese) Avesta Old Persian Middle Persian Persian Tajik Median Parthian Zazaki Kurdish Gorani: Macho from Topzawa (Kurdistan-Iraq) Gorani: Shabaki from Qahrawa Gorani: Bajalani from Arpaîi (source: MacKenzie 1956) Gorani: Hawrami from Byara Northern Talysh (Lavandavili / Lankaroni) Central Talysh (Taleshdulaei) Southern Talysh (Khushabari / Shandermani) Tati (Kelori / Geluzani) Old Azari Semnani Gilaki Mazandarani Balochi Pashto Waziri Yaghnobi Sogdian Khwarezmian Wakhi Ormuri: Logar Ormuri:Kanigur Parachi Yidgha Munji Bactrian Ishkashimi Zebaki Sanglechi Shughni Rushani Sariqoli Yazgulami Iron (Ossetic) Digor (Ossetic) Ossetic Kata/Kati Kami Wasi Khowar Kalasha(mun) Kashmiri Classical Sanskrit Vedic Sanskrit Urdu Sindhi Lahnda Gypsi Gk Punjabi St Gujarati Marwari Hindi Khaskura Nepali Bihari Magahi Assamese Bengali Oriya Marathi Sin(g)halese Dhivehi (Maldivian) Old Church Slavonic Macedonian Bulgarian Slovenian Serbo-Croatian Russian Ukrainian Byelorussian Slovak Czech Polish Lower Sorbian Upper Sorbian Old Prussian Latvian Lithuanian Old Norse Icelandic St Faroese Norwegian Swedish Danish Old English English Frisian Dutch List Flemish Afrikaans Sranan Old High German German Pennsylvania Dutch Lëtzebuergesch Schwyzerdütsch Gothic Oscan Umbrian Latin Italian Sardinian Catalan Spanish Brazilian Portuguese St French French Creole Walloon Provencal Ladin Romansch Friulian Rumanian Vlach Gaulisch Cornish Breton Welsh Old Irish Irish Gaelic (Scots)
Thank you! :)
ReplyDeleteWow, this is awesome!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for taking the time to do this!
Incredibly helpful--I wish I could give you a hug!
A great job! I have just started to study the spreadsheet and would be glad to discuss the details with you later.
ReplyDeleteKind regards,
George
Great job! Congratulations! I have developped a system (www.elinguistics.net) to generate language families trees out of 18 words from the Swadesh list. I will certainly add some of your stuff! Would be nice to get in touch,
ReplyDeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteI am quite enthousiastic about your data. I have converted them to the format I use to generate language family trees on my blog - you can have a look here:
IE Language family tree from your data.
The tree is automatically generated out an optimal subset of words from your list (Swadesh-Yakhontov's subset).
Kind regards
Vincent
eLinguistics,net
Hello Palisto,
ReplyDeleteGreat work! I wonder if you have an updated version. I have put a lot of work in the Swadesh lists in Wiktionary. Perhaps you can have a look at those for an update.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Swadesh_lists_by_language
Greetings, Hans Rompel
Hello! May I ask you, how did you get the data?
ReplyDeleteGreat work! But why there is "Brazilian"? The written Portuguese was unified in all countries that speak the language in 1990 and mandatory since 2009
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