Added info about miscellaneous wordlists.
authorOleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
Sat, 29 Apr 2017 01:44:49 +0300
changeset 850 e1ac373d384c
parent 849 3fe3f3a3752f
child 851 a45ebb513160
Added info about miscellaneous wordlists.
www/CHANGES.rst
www/HACKING.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
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+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
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--- 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
+
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