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The Leipzig–Jakarta list became available in 2009. [1] The word list is named after the cities of Leipzig, Germany, and Jakarta, Indonesia, the places where the list was conceived and created. In the 1950s, the linguist Morris Swadesh published a list of 200 words called the Swadesh list, allegedly the 200 lexical concepts found in all ...
Jakarta. Betawi language, one of the varieties of Malay-based creole spoken in Jakarta and the surrounding areas (Greater Jakarta). [25] Thousand Islands Malay, spoken in the Thousand Islands; this language is included in the Malay-based creole language variety, with influences from regional languages such as Sundanese, Bugis, and Mandarese ...
A General Service List of English Words — roughly 2,000 of the most common English words; Dolgopolsky list — the 15 words that change least as languages evolve; Leipzig–Jakarta list — 100 words resistant to borrowing, used to estimate chronological separation of languages, intended to improve on the Swadesh list
Blasi et al. (2016), [5] Joo (2020), [6] and Johansson et al. (2020) [7] demonstrated that in the languages around the world, certain concepts in the basic vocabulary (such as the Swadesh list or the Leipzig-Jakarta list) tend to be represented by words containing certain sounds. Below are some of the phonosemantic associations confirmed by the ...
Alternative lists that apply more rigorous criteria have been generated, e.g. the Dolgopolsky list and the Leipzig–Jakarta list, as well as lists with a more specific scope; for example, Dyen, Kruskal and Black have 200 meanings for 84 Indo-European languages in digital form.
25% of the words in the Leipzig–Jakarta list are body parts. When the total is 100, the ‘%’ sign is redundant! I count at most 23: nose, mouth, tongue, blood, bone, breast, wing, flesh/meat, arm/hand, ear, neck, tooth, hair, leg/foot, horn, navel, back, knee, liver, skin/hide, thigh, eye, tail. (For those of you who can't handle ...
The Dolgopolsky list is a word list compiled by Aharon Dolgopolsky in 1964 based on a study of 140 languages from across Eurasia. [1] It lists the 15 lexical items that he found have the most semantic stability, i.e. the 15 words least likely to be replaced.
This article lists common abbreviations for grammatical terms that are used in linguistic interlinear glossing of oral languages [nb 1] in English.. The list provides conventional glosses as established by standard inventories of glossing abbreviations such as the Leipzig Glossing rules, [2] the most widely known standard.