# HG changeset patch # User Oleksandr Gavenko # Date 1493419489 -10800 # Node ID e1ac373d384c00719cf98836ff1044a7fa5e4981 # Parent 3fe3f3a3752f46169addc7999fada86e54a2c127 Added info about miscellaneous wordlists. diff -r 3fe3f3a3752f -r e1ac373d384c www/CHANGES.rst --- a/www/CHANGES.rst Sat Apr 29 01:40:43 2017 +0300 +++ b/www/CHANGES.rst Sat Apr 29 01:44:49 2017 +0300 @@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ 0.3 800 n/a ======= ======== ======== +v0.12, 2017-xx-xx +================= + +* Added missing words from Swadesh (100), Leipzig-Jakarta (100, both used in + language comparing) and Dolch (200+95, historical) wordlists. + v0.11, 2017-04-22 ================= diff -r 3fe3f3a3752f -r e1ac373d384c www/HACKING.rst --- a/www/HACKING.rst Sat Apr 29 01:40:43 2017 +0300 +++ b/www/HACKING.rst Sat Apr 29 01:44:49 2017 +0300 @@ -421,6 +421,31 @@ http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antwordprofiler/ Laurence Anthony's AntWordProfiler home page. +Miscellaneous wordlists +----------------------- + +The Dolch word list is a list of frequently used English words compiled by +Edward William Dolch. The list was prepared in 1936 and was originally published +in his book Problems in Reading in 1948. Dolch compiled the list based on +children's books of his era. The list contains 220 "service words". The +compilation excludes nouns, which comprise a separate 95-word list + +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolch_word_list + Wikipedia article with list itself. + +The Leipzig–Jakarta list is a 100-word word list used by linguists to test the +degree of chronological separation of languages by comparing words that are +resistant to borrowing. The Leipzig-Jakarta list became available in 2009. + +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig%E2%80%93Jakarta_list + Wikipedia article with list itself. + +The words in the Swadesh lists were chosen for their universal, culturally +independent availability in as many languages as possible. Swadesh's final list, +published in 1971, contains 100 terms. + +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadesh_list + Typing IPA chars in Emacs =========================