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CLDF dataset derived from Grierson's "Linguistic Survey of India" from 1928
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Meanings susceptible to borrowings #15

Open PhyloStar opened 4 years ago

PhyloStar commented 4 years ago

I made a list of meanings that are susceptible to borrowings after looking through the output of cross-family comparison.

Bird Devil Dog Eight Eye Father Fire Foot Five Four God Gold Horse Hundred Iron Moon Nose Silver Sun Tooth Twenty Two Water Ass

LinguList commented 4 years ago

Makes a nice story, almost all concepts we know are borrowable, but we can also check some examples, and check the size of the borrowing cognate sets.

PhyloStar commented 4 years ago

Is moon and silver colexified in other languages? Here, it is colexified in Indo-Aryan languages.

PhyloStar commented 3 years ago

@lingulist You suggested using these maps. Can we use the maps from clld to show the words? They look awesome. May be Robert can suggest how to generate these maps for a subset of the data. We need the maps to highlight only those languages with words that show borrowings and colexifications.

LinguList commented 3 years ago

When going for borrowings to be shown in a publication, I think it is better to work with cartopy. This costs a bit of fine-tuning, which one would not want to handle over to clld, especially since it is based on previous cognate judgments. So I'd rather say: for the borrowing study, we make a new repository (rather than overloading lexibank/lsi and make a full-fledged cartopy map.